Edison Electric Light & Power Co. v. Merchants' & Manufacturers' Electric Light, Heat & Power Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 198, Jan. T., 1900, by-plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Erie Co., Feb. T., 1898, No. 4, on bill in equity in case of Edison Electric Light & Power Company v. Merchants’ & Manufacturers’ Electric Light, Heat & Power Company and the Western Electric Company. Bill in equity for an injunction.
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Appeal, No. 198, Jan. T., 1900, by-plaintiff, from decree of C. P. Erie Co., Feb. T., 1898, No. 4, on bill in equity in case of Edison Electric Light & Power Company v. Merchants’ & Manufacturers’ Electric Light, Heat & Power Company and the Western Electric Company. Bill in equity for an injunction. Walling, P. J., found the facts to be as follows: 1. That plaintiff, the Edison Electric Light & Power Company, was duly incorporated in 1886, and afterwards, upon surrender of its charter, received a new chatter under the Act of, May 8, 1889, P. L. 136. That the said Edison Electric Light &…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion bv
Mb. Justice Mitchell,
This decree must be reversed for want of any proper finding of facts upon which it can be sustained. The gravamen of the bill is that the complainant being in the lawful exercise of its franchises with the consent of the city, is interfered with at present and in danger of further interference in the future, by the defendant placing its wires so as to cross or run between, through and among the plaintiff’s wires in dangerous proximity thereto, and through the space already occupied by plaintiff, and secondly through adjacent space necessary to the plaintiff for…
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