Excerpt from The Law of Electricity: A Treatise on the Rules of the Law Relating to Telegraphs, Telephones Section. 26. Power of municipal corporation to grant use of streets to electric railways, 27. Injunctions against such use by abutting property-owners, 28. When telegraph poles in streets a public nuisance, 29. Liability of municipal corporation for allowing telegraph poles to be erected in its streets, 30. Power of city to designate the streets to be occupied, 31. Power of city to remove, 32. Constitutionality of statutes requiring wires to be put under ground, 33. Right of telephone companies to erect poles in the streets of cities, 34. Rights of abutting property-owners, 35. Invading private property - cutting trees, 36. Revocation of license by municipal corporation, 37. Struggles bv these companies for the exclusive use of the streets, 38. Continued: Plaintiff, an electric light company, organized by a gas-light company, 39. Question as depending upon priority of occupancy, 40. Charter power of control does not extend to the granting of exclusive privileges, 41. Who may question electric light privilege granted by mu nicipal corporation, 42. Charter power to authorize the use of electricity as a motive power for street railways, 43. Injunction by telephone company against electric railway company, Continued: Where both companies use the earth for a re turn circuit, 45. Further observations on this subject, 46. Tax for the privilege of using city streets, Reasonableness of license fee for use of streets, 48. Municipal control as to the mode of suspending or laying telegraph wires, 49. Futility of attempts at statutory regulation, 50. Dangers to be provided against by such regulations, 51. New York board of electrical control, Mandamus to compel city to designate places for erecting electric light poles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.