People ex rel. New York Electric Lines Co. v. Squire
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from an order of this court denying an application for a peremptory mandamus. The facts are stated in the following opinion rendered at the Special Term at the hearing, at the October Term, 1886.
1Opinion of the Court
Allen, J. —
The relator is a domestic corporation organized under, chapter 265 of the Laws of 1848, as amended, for the purpose of owning, constructing, using, maintaining, and leasing lines of telegraph wires or other electric conductors *156for telegraphic and telephone communication, and for electric illumination, to be placed under the pavements of the streets, avenues, and public highways of the cities of New York and Brooklyn, in the state of New York.
In the month of April, 1883, the relator obtained from the common council of the city of New York permission to lay its wires or other…
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