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POSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE CO. v. NEWPORT

No. 273.

247 U.S. 464 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 566

62 L.Ed. 1215

POSTAL TELEGRAPH CABLE COMPANY v. CITY OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 10, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Randolph Schindel, with whom Mr. Morison R. Waite was on the briefs, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Brent Spence for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

On December 5, 1895, the council of the City of Newport, Kentucky, passed an ordinance purporting to grant to the Postal Telegraph Cable Company and its successors, subject to certain limitations, the right and privilege of erecting poles and stretching wires over the streets and alleys of the city necessary to the establishment, operation, and maintenance of a telegraph system connecting that city with other...

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