Washington ex rel. City of Seattle v. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.

On Motion for Rehearing on Motion to Remand.

A petition for rehearing has been filed and additional authorities cited.1 No fault can be found with these cases, but they have no application to the facts stated in the record. The affidavit of the plaintiff states the franchise of the defendant has been transferred to Crosby without the franchise property. If true, the defendant is occupying the streets of plaintiff city at sufferance. The defendant has acquired from time to time “other telephone lines, facilities, and equipment which have been so commingled, consolidated a/nd confused with the…