Legal Opinion
City of New Castle v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania
Decided March 23, 1907No. 4PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Equity. On motion to remand to state court
1Opinion of the Court
EWING, District Judge.
On May 21, 1906, the plaintiff filed its . bill in equity in the court of common pleas of Lawrence county, Pa., against the defendant, setting forth that the plaintiff is a city of the third class of Pennsylvania, having full police power and the regulation and control of its streets and highways, and that, in pursuance 'of such power, it has constructed and established through a small part of its territory, being the closely built-up portions of said city, and that *570part on which the poles and wires most numerously exist and where the public travel is greatest, a certain…
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- Huntington v. SaundersSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Winnemans v. EdgingtonU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Iowa · 1886
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- Murphey v. G. C. Murphy Co.District Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1963