Northeastern Telephone &Telegraph Co. v. Hepburn

Pitney, V. C.

The object of these bills is to protect the complainant in the enjoyment of an easement in land by enjoining the disturbance thereof by the defendants. The easement was created by the predecessors in title of the several defendants in the three causes (which were tried together) by grant made to the predecessor in title of the complainant. The grant was for the right to set up, operate and maintain “a telegraph or telephone line or lines” over certain lands, and a telephone line was at once erected and has ever since been maintained.

The complainant and its predecessors in title…