New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Mitchell

By an instrument recorded in 1947, Medie Pudvah, who was defendant Eula Mitchell’s predecessor in title to certain land in Woodsville, granted to the plaintiff telephone company an easement for a telephone line right-of-way over the land. The deed gave the company the right to lay underground telephone cables and erect overhead lines across the property. The grantor agreed for himself, his successors and assigns not to establish or allow any building or structure within the easement which “in the judgment of the grantee . . . might interfere with the proper maintenance” of the lines “or their…