Cosgriff v. Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co.
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Grand Forks county; Fisk, J. Action by M. A. Cosgriff and others against the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs appeal. A telephone line in a street is an additional burden on the fee of the abutting owner. Donovan v. Allert, 11 N. D. 289, 91 N. W. 441, 58 L. R. A. 715, 95 Am. St. Rep. 720. The rights of an urban are more restricted than those of a suburban owner. Penn.
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Appeal from District Court, Grand Forks county; Fisk, J. Action by M. A. Cosgriff and others against the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiffs appeal. A telephone line in a street is an additional burden on the fee of the abutting owner. Donovan v. Allert, 11 N. D. 289, 91 N. W. 441, 58 L. R. A. 715, 95 Am. St. Rep. 720. The rights of an urban are more restricted than those of a suburban owner. Penn. R. R. Co. v. Montgomery County Pass. R. Co., 27 L. R. A. 766; Palmer v. Larchmont Electric Co., 158 N. Y. 231, 52 N. E. 1092; 2 Dillon Mun. Corp. 688;…
1Opinion of the CourtYoung, J.
The plaintiffs brought this action to enjoin the defendant from constructing and operating a long distance telephone and telegraph line on a certain rural highway in Chester township, Grand Forks county. The plaintiffs own seven quarter sections of land abutting upon the highway, which is located upon a section line. The defendant is a foreign corporation regularly authorized to do business in this state. It obtained the consent of the township supervisors to construct its line over the highway in question, *214but did not obtain the consent of the plaintiffs, who are abutting o vners, and it has…
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- Pensacola Telegraph Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Ann Arbor RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Cater v. Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1895
- Pierce v. DrewMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Eels v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1894
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- Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. CosgriffNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1909
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