Granger Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Sloane Bros.

Citations

• 96 Wash. 333
• 165 P. 102
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 598

Syllabus

<p>Eminent Domain — Damages—Property. The damages to telephone and telegraph lines, located in a highway under a franchise, which necessarily results from improving the highway without negligence, is not a taking or damaging of private property without just compensation first made as required by Const., art. 1, § 16; and neither the county nor contractor will be liable therefor.</p>