Commonwealth ex rel. Bell Telephone Co. v. Warwick
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 320, Jan. T., 1897, by defendants, from order of C. P. No. 4, Pliila. Co.,'March T.. 1897, No. 375, awarding mandamus. Petition for mandamus.
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Appeal, No. 320, Jan. T., 1897, by defendants, from order of C. P. No. 4, Pliila. Co.,'March T.. 1897, No. 375, awarding mandamus. Petition for mandamus. The petition was as follows : 1. That in the year 1879 petitioner was incorporated under the provisions of the act of assembly of the state of Pennsylvania, of April 29, 1874, and its supplements, for the purpose of “ constructing, maintaining and operating a line or lines of telegraph, and all such other business as may be authorized by the act of April 29, 1874, providing for the incorporation and regulation of certain corporations, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Mitchell,
The Bell Telephone Company, relator, claims the right under the ordinance of 1879 granting permission to introduce its system into Philadelphia, to lay its wires under the streets, and to erect such terminal poles, etc., as it may deem necessary, subject only to the regulation of the use of the streets by general ordinances of councils. The respondents on the other hand, on behalf of the city of Philadelphia, contend that the consent of councils must be specially obtained for each extension of the relator’s conduits or wires and the erection of each terminal…
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