Ahrent v. Sprague
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Clay Chancery Court, Western District; Archer Wheatley, Chancellor; STATEMENT OP PACTS. Appellee is the owner of the Corning Telephone system. His lines are constructed along the highways from Corning to several nearby towns. Appellants owned and operated a steam threshing machine which was carried from place to place during the threshing season along the highways where the appellee’s telephone wires are strung and into the wheat fields adjacent thereto.
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Appeal from Clay Chancery Court, Western District; Archer Wheatley, Chancellor; STATEMENT OP PACTS. Appellee is the owner of the Corning Telephone system. His lines are constructed along the highways from Corning to several nearby towns. Appellants owned and operated a steam threshing machine which was carried from place to place during the threshing season along the highways where the appellee’s telephone wires are strung and into the wheat fields adjacent thereto. Appellee claims that appellants wilfully and repeatedly broke down his telephone wires with their thresher and brought this suit…
1Opinion of the Court
HART, J.,
(after stating the facts). (1) Appellee has conducted and is conducting a telephone business in the town of Coming and other towns in the western district of Olay County, and in the country between said towns. Pursuant to the provisions of section 2934 of Kirby’s Digest, appellee has erected his poles and wires and has constructed his telephone lines along and over the highways between said towns. Under the provisions of this section of the digest, any person, or corporation organized for the purpose of transmitting intelligence by telephone may construct, operate and maintain its…
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