Ohio Bell Telephone Co. v. Watson Co.

The question involved, in this case is well stated in the petition in error to be whether or not the erection of poles and wires by a telephone company within the limits of a highway outside of a municipality, and without the consent of the landowner, whose farms abut upon said highway, and whether or not the trimming of trees growing within the limits of the highway in front of the property of the landowner, where such trimming is necessary for the telephone line, constitutes a taking of property without compensation, contrary to Section 19, Article I, of the Constitution of the state of…