State v. Mayor of Jersey City
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This writ brings up an ordinance to repeal an ordinance entitled “An ordinance to authorize the Hudson Telephone Company to erect posts or poles in certain streets of Jersey City.”
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Reed, J.
The prosecutors are a corporation by reason of a certificate filed under the provisions of an act entitled “An act to incorporate and regulate telegraph companies ” contained in the Rev., p. 1174, and the supplement thereto, to be found in the Pamph. L. 1881, p. 201.
The eighth section of the original act is as follows: “Any telegraph company organized by virtue of this act shall have full power to use the public roads or highways in the state on the line of their route for the purposes of erecting posts or poles on the same to suspend wires and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Brooklyn Central Rail Road v. Brooklyn City Rail RoadNew York Supreme Court · 1860
- Commonwealth v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
3Cited by11 opinions
- Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. v. City of MinneapolisSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1900
- Missouri River Telephone Co. v. City of MitchellSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1908
- State ex rel. County Attorney v. Des Moines City Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1913
- Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. City of RichmondCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1900
- City of St. Louis v. Western Union Tel. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri · 1894
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