Ashworth

Mutual Electric Light Co. v. Ashworth

Good Law
118 Cal. 1·50 P. 10
Supreme Court of CaliforniaSeptember 3, 1897S. F. No. 583California1,445 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Temple, J.

This is an appeal from an order refusing an injunction. The action was brought for the purpose of obtaining an injunction restraining the personal defendant, bis servants and deputies, from “interfering with, obstructing or prohibiting plaintiff from erecting its posts, making the necessary connections with its supply wires or furnishing electric lights to the citizens and inhabitants of the city and county of San Francisco; and specially from hindering and preventing this plaintiff from making connections with its electric wires as aforesaid on said Market street, in said city and county of San Francisco, in the block bounded by Geary and Kearny streets, Grant avenue, and Market street.

The verified complaint sets forth the incorporation of plaintiff for the purpose of furnishing electric light to the inhabitants of San Francisco; that the owners of the premises fronting the portion of Market street'described applied to plaintiff for electric light in the building and for lights in front of the building, as they had theretofore been supplied by the Electric Light and Power Company. That plaintiff proceeded to erect posts just as they had been theretofore maintained by the rival…

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