Board of Public Works v. Denver Telephone Co.

The Denver Telephone Company, a domestic corporation, is the remote asignee of a right or privilege which the city council of the city of Denver, by resolution in 1884, granted to eight of its citizens to occupy its public streets and alleys for the purpose of constructing and operating a telegraph and telephone system. In January 1897, the company made a written application, as the charter or ordinance of the city prescribes, to the board of public works of the city of Denver for a permit to excavate a trench in one of the public alleys in which conduits for laying telephone wires were to be…