Suburban Light & Power Co. v. Board of Aldermen
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two petitions for writs of mandamus. In the first case, the petitioner, an electric lighting company, sought to compel the respondents to grant it specific locations for its posts within certain highways in the city of Boston, in accordance with a petition filed with the board on January 20, 1890, and refused on February 10, 1890. Hearing on the petition and a demurrer filed thereto, before Field, C. J., who sustained the demurrer, and dismissed the petition; and the…
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Two petitions for writs of mandamus. In the first case, the petitioner, an electric lighting company, sought to compel the respondents to grant it specific locations for its posts within certain highways in the city of Boston, in accordance with a petition filed with the board on January 20, 1890, and refused on February 10, 1890. Hearing on the petition and a demurrer filed thereto, before Field, C. J., who sustained the demurrer, and dismissed the petition; and the petitioner alleged exceptions. In the second case, the petitioner sought to compel the respondents to give it, in accordance…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The following opinion was written by Mr. Justice Devens, and after his death was approved as the opinion of the court by the Justices who sat with him at the argument The second petition to the board of aldermen, which is the only one which need be considered, does not ask that the aider-men shall give any specific location for posts, etc. to the petitioner, but that they shall specify in writing where, along the highways of the city in the direction indicated, it may locate “such number of posts as may be reasonably necessary to enable your petitioner properly to do its…
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