Lewis v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE GREEN

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case concerns the right to possession of an area extending from north to south of approximately one-half mile in length and three feet underground where defendant, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, had laid a cable to be used for the transmission of messages for its customers and those of two other utilities. The cable was laid under a ditch which was some five to 10 feet east of the east edge of the paved portion of a highway. The fee interest in the east half of the paved portion of the highway, the ditch area and the adjoining…