Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York March 21, 1900 (Castle v. Bell Tel. Co.)

ADAMS, P. J.

Several propositions are advanced and discussed with a degree of earnestness by the respective counsel in their briefs; but as they are all subsidiary to and dependent upon the right of a telephone company to place its appliances in or upon a public street of a populous and thriving city without making compensation to the owner of the fee, we shall direct our attention solely to the