People Ex Rel. New York Electric Lines Co. v. Squire
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Court of ■Common Pleas, in and for the city and county of New York, made February 7, 1887, which affirmed an order of Special Term, denying an-application for a peremjitory mcmdamus ■directing defendant, as commissioner of public works in and for the city of New York, to grant to the petitioner a written permit to make excavations in certain streets of the city of New York “for the purpose of laying the wires on their conductors…
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Court of ■Common Pleas, in and for the city and county of New York, made February 7, 1887, which affirmed an order of Special Term, denying an-application for a peremjitory mcmdamus ■directing defendant, as commissioner of public works in and for the city of New York, to grant to the petitioner a written permit to make excavations in certain streets of the city of New York “for the purpose of laying the wires on their conductors of electricity.” The material facts are stated in the opinion. The subway act of June 13, 1885, as amended by chapter 503…
1Opinion of the Court
Ruger, Ch. J.
The relator was incorporated in 1882 for the purpose of “ owning, constructing, using, maintaining and leasing lines of telegraph wires or other electric conductors for telegraphic and telephonic communication, and for electric illumination, to be placed under the pavements of the streets,” etc., in the counties of Hew York and Kings. Their organization was effected under chapter 265 of the Laws of 1848, which, by a general law, authorized the formation of corporations of that character, and -in 1883 it applied to and received from the common council of the city of Hew York, by…
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