The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-12-13
ENJOIN FLOW
OF Juice" ON
POWER WIRES
CITIZENS TELEPHONE COMPANY
FILES BILL IN CHANCERY
COURT TODAY.
ALLEGE PROBABLE interference
Southern Cities Power Company En-
Joined From OPERATION of Electri-
cal Current to Mt. Pleasant--lmpor-
tant Bill.
saturdays Daily Herald

On petition, of the Citizens Tele-
phone Company of Columbia in the
Chancery court, an injunction was
granted this morning by Judge w. b.
Turner against the Southern Cities
Power Co. enjoining the defendant
from turning on or transmitting cleo
tricity or electrical power over its
wires from the water-power plant on
Duck river at Columbia to Mt. Pleas
ant, the petition alleging that such
transmission of electricity would in
terfere with the operation of the tele-'
phone system of the complainant COM
pany. The Injunction was served on
the Southern Cities Power Company
by Sheriff G. X .Houser this morning
and the bill was made returnable to
the Chancery court next Monday. 1t
was believed by officials OF the teie-
phone company that the power COM
pany was preparing to turn on the
Juice" from its plant probably today
or not later than Monday.
The bill of the Citizens Telephone
Company, filed by attorneys Greenlaw
| & Whitthorne, sets forth that the COM
pany is Tennessee corporation opcr-
ating a telephone system for the SER
vice of 1000 subscribers in Columbia
Mt. Pleasant, Hampshire, Williams
port, Santa Fee, Southport and through
out the county, and that its annual re-
ceipts amount to $4,000. 1t is alleg-
ed that the service will be impaired
and probably destroyed when the cleo
trio current of $4,000 volts proposed
by the power company is turned on
the electric wires, which, according
to the camplainants bill have been
/ placed so close to the telephone wires
that buzzing noise will be created
constantly. The points of particular
interference are alleged by the tele-
i phone company to be on East Ninth
and Glade streets, where the power
wires cross to the city from the water
power plant located one-half mile UP
i the river;,f out the Bigbyvillev pike
about 5 miles and thence to Mt. Pleas
ant.
Over this course it is alleged that
the electric wires at some points are
within two or three feet of the tele
phone wires, that guy wires of the
power company. have been stretched
through The wires of the telephone
!. company and that in other ways the
: power company has interfered with
, the rights of the telephone company
This has been done, the bill alleges
despite the fact that the defendant
company has been warned of the pos
sible damage and had promised tt
, correct the points of conflict. 1t is
declared that the telephone COMPANY
has already been to large expense
in avoiding anticipated conflicts, not
withstanding that it's rights do no
COMPEL it to get cut of the defend
ants way
: The telephone company alleges tina
by placing the high current electro
wires less than s feet from the tolo
= phone company the power compan.
was guilty of negligent, reckless ant
wilful disregard Of the complainant
rights" and asks that an injunction is
+ sue to enioin the defendant compan,
from turning on or transmitting cleo
tricity or electrical power" over tn
J wires to Mt. Pleasant, and from "usini
same in any way or manner tina
would interfere with or injure line
J of the complainant" 1t was aske
+ that the Injunction be made perpetual
I The bill also alleges that the pow
l. er company has Illegally, recklessl
}, ard negligently constructed its lin
of transmission to such an extent tina
l. same will be dangerous to the trave
y ing public and the rights of the con
Z. plainant," when the current is turne
l. on the wires which are strung on pole
r, $50 or 100 feet apart and may brea
n or fall under high winds or the sno'
y and sleet of winter
e The fiat for the injunction was il
: sued this morning by Judge w. B. Tu
ner to Clerk and Master Mora B. Fal
ISIS and was executed Immediately
Sheriff G. X. Houser. The bond @
the complainant was fixed at $500.