Cumberland Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Louisville Home Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 100 — Two Separate Actions Brought by the Louisville Home Telephone Company against the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company for Injunction and Other Relief.-— Feb. 18. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, CHANCERY DIVISION. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
•Opinion or the cot/kt by
JUDGE HOBSON
— Arribming.
On August 17, 1SS6, by an ordinance of the city of Louisville, pursuant to an act of the Legislature approved April 3, 1886, the Ohio Yalley Telephone Company was authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a telephone system on the streets of the city; but th'a ordinance contained this provision: “Nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed as to give the said telephone company, its successor or assigns, any exclusive right to erect poles or to lay underground conduits, pipes, cables, conductors or wires in the streets, avenues, alleys…
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- Eaton v. . AspinwallNew York Court of Appeals · 1859
- The Buffalo and Allegany Railroad Company v. . CaryNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
- Demarest v. . FlackNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Land Grant Railway & Trust Co. v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Kansas · 1870
- Trustees of East Norway Lake Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church v. FroislieSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1887
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- Bowles v. BryanCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1925
- Stearns Coal & Lumber Co. v. BoyattCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1916
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