Legal Opinion
San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railway Co. v. Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided February 8, 1900No. 855PublishedCited by 36 opinions
Questions certified from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Falls County.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
The Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District has certified to this court the following statement and questions:
“The appellee is authorized to do business in Texas as a telegraph and telephone company, and is putting in operation a long distance telephone system to and from different towns in the State of Texas. The appellee brought this action to have condemned certain portions of the right of way adjoining the appellant’s railway line, for the pun-pose of planting and erecting its telephone poles, upon which, it appears from the evidence, they…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Lehman v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
- Richmond v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1899
- Wisconsin Telephone Co. v. City of OshkoshWisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
- James v. . PattenNew York Court of Appeals · 1851
- Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1899
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3Cited by36 opinions
- Marcus Cable Associates, L.P. v. KrohnTexas Supreme Court · 2002
- W.D. Yett, Mayor v. CookTexas Supreme Court · 1926
- City of Brownwood v. Brown Telegraph & Telephone Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1913
- Kaufman v. Islamic Society of ArlingtonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2009
- State ex rel. Shaver v. Iowa Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1915
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