Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Tyson

In 1918 the defendants, in consideration of fifty dollars, granted to the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company “the right to construct, operate, and maintain its lines of telephone and telegraph, including the necessary poles, cables, wires and fixtures upon and along the property” of the defendants in the first district of Harford County, “said poles to be located only upon and along the roads, streets or highways adjoining the said property; to permit the attachment of the wires of any other company or person; to cut down or trim any trees along said lines except between poles thirty (30)…