Board of Mayor v. East Tennessee Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The East Tennessee Telephone Company is a corporation organized under the law of Kentucky, which is engaged in the operation of telephone systems in various towns of Tennessee.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The East Tennessee Telephone Company is a corporation organized under the law of Kentucky, which is engaged in the operation of telephone systems in various towns of Tennessee. Prior to the controversy as to its right to do a local business and conduct an exchange at Morristown, it seems to have been conducting, in Morristown, a long-distance telephone station, by which the town was connected with other towns in the vicinity in which it was doing a local business. Prior to September, 1899, the local…
1Opinion of the CourtEurton, Circuit Judge
The power of the city of Morristown, prior to the amendment of its charter by the act of April 21, 1899, to grant any street rights to the Morristown Telephone Company, is denied, and an ordinance passed February 22, 1896, giving to that company the right to erect poles and string wires on the streets and alleys of the town, subject to certain limitations, is claimed to have been an ultra vires act. Morristown is incorporated under a special legislative charter passed November 21, 1867. Priv. Acts Tenn. 1867-68, p. 18. Curiously enough, that charter does not, in express terms, deal with the…
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