Mutual Union Tel. Co. v. City of Chicago

The plaintiff is a corporation of the state of New York, and being desirous of establishing a telegraph line in Chicago, made application to the city council for permission to establish such line, and -on December 29, 1881, an ordinance was passed for that purpose, giving the company the right to erect poles and to place wires upon them for telegraph purposes in the manner therein described. But the sixth section of the ordinance declared “that the line of telegraph poles erected, and the wires strung under the provisions of this ordinance, shall be of a temporary character only, and for the…