Brown v. Radnor Township Electric Light Co.

Citations

• 208 Pa. 453
• 57 A. 904
• 1904 Pa. LEXIS 783

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Electric light company — Township—District.</p> <p>An electric light company may be incorporated for a township. The word “ district ” in the second section of the Act of May 8, 1889, P. L. 136, is not to be restricted merely to a division of a city or borough.</p> <p>Corporations — Electric light companies — Power of eminent domain.</p> <p>Under the Act of May 8, 1889, P. L. 136, an electric light company has, from the express terms of the act, a limited power of eminent domain, and under such power may enter upon the bed of a turnpike road, and erect its poles and string its wires, notwithstanding the objection of abutting owners who own the fee in the bed of the road.</p> <p>Mesteezat, J., dissents.</p>