Titusville Electric Light & Power Co. v. Titusville

Citations

• 196 Pa. 3
• 46 A. 195
• 1900 Pa. LEXIS 460

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Electric light companies — Municipality—Exclusive privileges — Lighting streets.</p> <p>A grant by a city to an electric light company to supply “ light, heat and power by electricity to persons, partnerships and corporations in the city and territory adjacent thereto, and to erect a plant and poles and necessary .fixtures therefor, and run wires on the same on, over and under any and all streets, alleys and lanes in the said city,” is not in derogation, either expressly or by implication, of the city’s right to furnish street lamps in any part of the city where it was already furnishing them, and hence not in derogation of the city’s right to provide them in any part of the city. Under such a grant the company has no exclusive privilege to furnish street lamps anywhere. The decisions l’elating to the exclusive privileges of water companies are not analogous.-</p>