Keystone Telephone Co. v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co.

Citations

• 56 Pa. Super. 384
• 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 97

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Telephone company — Conduit under streets — Elevation of railroad tracks — Damages.</p> <p>Where a municipality grants to a telephone company the right to lay conduits under its streets the grant is subject to such reasonable regulations as the city may properly make under its police power. If the city changes the grade of a street, in the interest of public safety, so as to elevate the tracks of a railroad company under an agreement with such company, and as a consequence a telephone company is compelled to relocate certain of its conduits under the street, the telephone company cannot recover either from the city or the railroad company the costs of such relocation.</p>