Court Opinion

ID: 7934979
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-08 23:08:32.902102+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:33:30.234168
License: Public Domain

Champlin, C. J.
The facts in this case differ from those in Potter v. Street Ry., ante, 285 in this: The lot owned by Mrs. Barber is located at the north-easterly corner of Washington and Jefferson streets. The defendant's track is laid along Jefferson street, and, as it approaches Washington street from a westerly direction, it curves to the south, and proceeds along Washington street. *300The track is laid in the center of the street; and, assuming that complainant’s rights extend to the center of the streets upon which she adjoins, thé defendant’s track nowhere comes within 10 feet of complainant’s premises, if they extended to the center of the street. Defendant’s trolley wire is over the center of the track, and curves with it. When the bill was filed, a sustaining wire extended from the trolley wire at the curve, and was* attached to a pole standing between the sidewalk and the paved portion of the street in front of her lot. This pole was stayed with a wire running from the pole to a guy-post set in the ground in front of her lot. Defendant, in its answer, made an offer to remove each of them, and to maintain no poles upon or over her lot afterwards, without her consent. The court below, by reason of this offer, directed compliance with it, and the poles and wire were accordingly removed. It appears from the testimony of Dr. Barber, the complainant’s husband, that since such removal the complainant has no cause for complaint.
Upon the hearing in the court beloAv, the following decree was entered, viz.:
“It appearing to the court that, since the order was made in this cause for the issue of the preliminary writ of injunction, the post, pole, metallic rope, and wire described in the bill of complaint in said cause, erected by the defendant for operating its cars and street railroad by means of electricity, in front of the complainant’s premises, described as 'lot 1, in block 28, north of Cass street, in the city of SaginaAv,’ in said bill of complaint, have been removed, as directed in said order: It is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the said defendant be, and it is hereby, perpetually enjoined and restrained from at any time hereafter erecting, Avithin the street limits on and in front of the complainant’s* said premises on Washington street, in said city, any poles, posts, or wires, for operating its cars or railroad by means of electricity, without the complainant’s consent therefor first obtained.
*301“It is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the complainant recover of the defendant her costs of this suit to be taxed as heretofore ordered; that the defendant pay such costs to the complainant; and that she have execution therefor out of and under the seal of said court.”
This decree afforded the complainant all the relief she was entitled to, and the decree appealed from by her is affirmed, with the costs of this Court, against the complainant.
Morse, Cahill, and Grant, JJ., concurred. Long, J., did not sit.