City of Los Angeles v. City of South Gate

In 1923 the legislature passed an act purporting to grant “to every municipal corporation of the State of California the right to construct, operate and maintain water and gas pipes, mains and conduits, electric light and electric power lines, telephone and telegraph lines, sewers and sewer mains, all with their necessary appurtenances, across, along, in, under, over or upon any road, street, alley, avenne or highway, and across, under or over any railway, canal, ditch or flume which the route of such work intersects, crosses or runs along, in such a manner as to afford security for life and property”, it "being provided in the act that the street or highway shall be restored as nearly as possible to its former state and such use located so as to interfere as little as possible with other uses and it being further provided “that before any such municipal corporation shall use any street, alley, avenue or highway within any other municipal corporation, the municipal corporation proposing to use such street . . . shall request the municipal corporation in which such street ... is situated to agree with said municipal corporation proposing to make such use, upon the terms and…