Potomac Electric Power Co. v. Wall

The purpose of this suit is to compel, by mandatory injunction, the removal by the Potomac Electric Power Company of a number of poles which it is alleged to have erected without authority on land of the plaintiff along the course of a public road in Montgomery County. The defendant’s answer asserted that the poles are located in the margin of a public road, where the defendant has a franchise to erect and maintain them for the purposes of the electric light and power business in which it is engaged as a public service corporation, and that the plaintiff has no right to require the removal of…