Wettengel v. Allegheny County Light Co.

Citations

• 223 Pa. 79
• 72 A. 265
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 479

Syllabus

<p>Electric light companies — Right to extend wires over street — Equity—Injunction — Corporation.</p> <p>1. An electric light company has by virtue of its charter privilege and municipal consent the right to extend its wires across a street, and any interference with the safe and convenient use of its wires is an encroachment upon a public right that is paramount to any right in the abutting owners to extend wires over the same street.</p> <p>2. Where a wire maintained by an individual in a street interferes with and endangers the wires of an electric light company engaged in furnishing electric light to the public the individual will be enjoined from maintaining the wire.</p>