Hildebrand v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Defendant’s primary assignment of error is directed to the refusal of the court below to sustain its exception to the order of the General County Court denying its motion for judgment as of nonsuit. It stressfully contends that the State Highway Commission is vested with absolute control of all land within the right of way of a public highway of the State and that such right of way is acquired by the State not only for the ordinary mode of travel but for any and all other modes of com municating intelligence between points connected by tbe highways. It asserts, therefore, that when it…