Louisville & N. R. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Kentucky; Walter Evans, Judge. Suit in equity by the Western Union Telegraph Company against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. From an order denying a motion to dissolve injunction, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
Pursuant to a Kentucky statute of 1898 (Ky. St. § 4679c), the telegraph company, in December, 1911, began a proceeding to condemn an easement for'a line of telegraph poles and wire over and along the right of way of the railroad company within *6the state of . Kentucky. The details of the situation involved are fully stated in the opinions of this court in the suits between the same parties, reported in 207 Fed. 1, 124 C. C. A. 573, in 249 Fed. 385, 161 C. C. A. 359, and in 252 Fed. 29, 164 C. C. A. 141. The condemnation proceeding came to a trial, upon the law side of…
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