American Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Pearce

These ten cases were argued together, and, as they present substantially the same questions, they will be disposed of in one opinion. They are all bills filed by separate land-owners in Baltimore County, seeking to enjoin the “ American Telephone and Telegraph Company of Baltimore City,” a corporation incorporated under the general corporation law of this State, from erecting telegraph poles, and ,constructing a telegraph or telephone line of wires on and over the lands of the several complainant's. Eight of the appeals are from orders granting preliminary injunctions upon the several bills.…