General Telephone Co. of the Northwest, Inc. v. City of Bothell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• charging municipality, which requested burying of aerial telephone facilities, the difference in cost between installation of aerial and underground facilities not violative of constitutional prohibition against making gift to municipality
• \a gift is a transfer of property without consideration and with donative intent\
• “[A] city’s right to enact police power regulations in a given area ceases when the [utility commission] passes a general law concerning the same area and concurrent jurisdiction is not possible. [The] undergrounding tariff was valid and pursuant to express [commission] authority.”
• \Franchises have the legal status of contracts.\
• “Franchises have the legal status of contracts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).