Roaring Springs Townsite Co. v. Paducah Telephone Co.

Plaintiff in error applied for a temporary injunction to restrain defendant in error from constructing a telephone line across a section of land, which belonged to plaintiff in error in Motley County. One hundred and sixty acres, near the center of the section, had been subdivided into lots, blocks, streets and alleys, for a townsite, and both by plat and deed the streets and alleys had been dedicated to public use, by plaintiff in error; provided, however, that plaintiff in error undertook to reserve to itself the exclusive right to grant, for a valuable consideration, to any person or…