Smith v. Delaware & Atlantic Telegraph & Telephone Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Adams, J.

The bill in this suit was filed for a mandatory injunction to compel the removal of certain wires strung over the sidewalk in front of the premises of complainant without his consent. The bill alleges that the complainant owns in fee-simple and is possessed of a certain. described tract of land in the borough of Elmer, in the county of Salem, extending to the middle of Main street, and that the defendant, a foreign corporation, without warrant of law or the permission of complainant, and against his written and verbal protest, strung wires, to…