Case ID: pa_208/html/0460-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Dean,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Radnor Township Electric Light Company’s Petition.
    
      Corporations — Electric light companies — Eminent domain — Turnpike road —Bond.'
    An electric light company has the power to occupy the roadbed of a turnpike with its poles and wires upon filing its bond to secure abutting owners from loss.
    Argued Feb. 10, 1904.
    Appeal, No. 143, Jan. T., 1903, by Martha Morris Brown and Mary J. B. Chew, from order of C. P. Del. Co., March T., 1903, No. 243, approving bond in the matter of the Petition of Radnor Township Electric Light Company.
    Before Mitchell, C. J., Dean, Fell, Mestrezat and Thompson, JJ.
    Affirmed.
    Petition for approval of bond.
    See Brown v. Radnor Township Electric Light Co., supra.
    The opinion of the Supreme Court states the ease.
    
      Error assigned was the order approving the bond.
    
      William I Schaffer, for appellants.
    
      John Gr. Johnson, with him W. Roger Eronefield, V. Grilpin Robinson and Charles E. Morgan, for appellee.
    March 21, 1904:
   Opinion by

Mr. Justice Dean,

On April 25, 1903, the Radnor Township Electric Light Company presented its petition to the court below for the approval of a bond to Martha Morris Brown and Mary J. B. Chew, appellants, to secure them for any damages which might be made by the erection of poles and wires within the bed of the highway, which is a turnpike road, for about a mile along their property in Radnor township, fronting on the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road, in the underlying fee of which they claimed to be the owners.

The respondents filed a demurrer and answer to this petition, raising the question of the power of the court to approve the bond and of the petitioner to locate its poles.

The court, after a full hearing, fixed the amount of the bond at $4,000. A bond in this sum was filed and approved by the court, whereupon this appeal was taken. No question is raised on the appeal as to the sufficiency of the bond. The single question is as to the power of the company to plant its poles and string its wires within the bed of the highway upon which the appellant’s property abuts.

We have said all that we deem necessary in opinion handed down herewith in case No. 257 between the same parties. The decree is affirmed.