Brandt v. Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad

Citations

• 78 Wash. 214
• 138 P. 871
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1001

Syllabus

<p>Eminent Domain — Streets — Additional Servitudes — Power Lines eor Street Railway. A street railway company having a valid franchise to operate street cars by electric power over certain designated streets of the city, may maintain power lines upon other dedicated streets for the purpose of transmitting power in aid of the operation of its lines for public travel within the city, and the location of such a power line in a street not used by street cars would not be an additional burden upon abutting property for which compensation could be claimed.</p> <p>Same. The fact that power was transmitted over such line for the use also of the company’s interurban line outside of the city would not affect the rights of abutters, where the occupancy of the street was not thereby in any way changed.</p>