Solar Electric Company's Appeal

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

Whether a borough has power to condemn and appropriate the property and franchises of an electric light company located therein and furnishing electric light and power to the municipality and its citizens and to others outside the borough limits is the question we are to answer on this appeal. From the commencement and throughout the proceedings appellant has denied the power of the municipality to take its property.

The argument made to us covered a wide field. We think the proper contentions of the parties lie within a small compass, that of the language of the…