South Georgia Power Co. v. Smith

1. Where not prohibited by law, a city may legally erect and maintain an obstruction in one of its streets, provided the obstruction is not dangerous and does not constitute an unreasonable interference with the lawful use of the street. 9 R. C. L. 1193; 13 R. C. L. 199; 26 R. C. L. 527. Where, in a city street about eighty feet wide, the city has authorized the erection and maintenance, longitudinally down the middle of the street, of a series of poles which support electrical wires, and on either side of the poles there remain driveways, each of which is about forty feet in width, and the…