Legal Opinion

Arkansas State Highway Commission v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided March 20, 1944No. 4-7357PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.

The parties to this litigation are the State Highway Commission, which was created by § 647-8, Pope’s Digest, and which is vested with all the powers and duties necessary,, or proper, to enable it to carry out and execute the laws of the state relating to the'state highways; and appellee, a corporation author-, ized to conduct a telephone business in this state, and clothed with'the privileges conferred by § 4991, Pope’s Digest.

The decree from which is this appeal was rendered upon the pleadings, which disclosed the following facts. The Highway -Commission has the control and management of…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. State Ex Inf. McKittrick v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1936
  2. Georgia v. Trustees of the Cincinnati Southern RailwaySupreme Court of the United States · 1918
  3. Ahrent v. SpragueSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1919
  4. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Batesville & Winerva Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1906
  5. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. BiddleSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1932

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. County of Los Angeles v. Southern California Telephone Co.California Supreme Court · 1948
  2. Bettencourt v. State of CaliforniaCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1954
  3. United States v. Mrs. Vesta M. Pinson and J.H. PinsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1964
  4. International Paper Co. v. MCI Worldcom Network Services, Inc.District Court, W.D. Arkansas · 2002
  5. Safeway Trails, Inc. v. FurmanNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1962

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