Central District & Printing Telegraph Co. v. Pittsburg, McKeesport & Youghiogheny Railroad

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 237
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 350

Syllabus

<p>Telegraph and telephone companies — corporations—Use of streets of borough — Vacation of streets.</p> <p>Where a telegraph and telephone company, having a charter from the commonwealth, and all the powers granted by statute to such companies, maintains, with municipal consent, duly granted, its poles and wires on certain streets of a borough, the rights of such company with respect to those streets are terminated by a subsequent ordinance of the borough providing for the vacation of the streets. In such a case the company has no standing after a street has been vacated, to restrain the owner of the bed of the street from removing the poles and wires.</p>