Home Telegraph Co. v. Mayor of Nashville

The complainant is a telegraph company, organized on the 26th of January, 1906, under section 8, c. 142, p. 243, Acts 1875.. It sought to enter the city of Nashville with its lines and plant, and was denied the right to use the streets and alleys of the city for that purpose by the mayor and city council. This bill is to enjoin the mayor and city council, which will be hereafter referred to as the city, from preventing said entrance and occupying the streets, alleys, avenues, squares, and public thoroughfares, by placing thereon poles, wires, cross-arms, guides, braces, and other necessary…