Rockport Coal Co.'s Trustee in Bankruptcy v. Tilford

Opinion of the Court by

Commissioner Sandidge

Affirming.

The town of Bockport, in Ohio county, is a municipality of the sixth class. It instituted this action against appellant, Bockport Coal Company, seeking a mandatory injunction to compel the coal company to remove certain poles and wires and electric light equipment from the streets of the municipality. It sought that relief upon the theory that the coal company had placed them in its streets without authority. By answer, the coal company denied the allegations of the petition, and affirmatively pleaded that the city had sold, and it had…