Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Louisville N. R. Co.

The Western Union Telegraph Company, appellant, filed this (substituted) bill against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, appellee, for the purpose, aside from injunction to maintain the status quo pendente lite, of invoking the aid of equity to put the appellant into possession and to assure to it the enjoyment of an easement, or right of way, on the west side of appellee’s railway line from Montgomery, Ala., to that line’s intersection with the Alabama'-Tennessee state line. The right to the easement claimed by the appellant is ascribed and attributed to condemnations of rights of…