Washington v. City of Elizabeth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that telephone company's excavation of public street to install lines was not an improvement, because it served the nearby houses, not the street itself
• Neither the installation nor the maintenance of an underground utility line constitutes an improvement to real property. It is only a conduit to transmit electricity, water and gas.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).