Oil City v. Postal Telegraph Cable Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 162, April T., 1917, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Venango Co., April T., 1915, No. 8, for defendant on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Oil City v. Postal Telegraph Cable Company. Assumpsit to recover penalties.
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Appeal, No. 162, April T., 1917, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Venango Co., April T., 1915, No. 8, for defendant on case tried by the court without a jury in suit of Oil City v. Postal Telegraph Cable Company. Assumpsit to recover penalties. Before Criswell, P. J. From the record it appeared that a summons in assumpsit was issued and statement filed to recover penalties from defendant on account of its violation of a city ordinance in refusing to put its telegraph wires under ground in conduits. The action was defended against on the ground that the ordinances were invalid. By…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Henderson, J.,
This appeal involves a consideration of the power of cities of the third class to require telephone and telegraph companies to place their wires under ground in limited districts within the municipal territory and the legal capacity of a telephone company maintaining telephone lines and doing business in such city to construct and operate a conduit within such district in which other telephone and telegraph companies in such district may be required to place their lines on such reasonable terms as may be lawfully established. The authority of such cities to require…
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