New York Court of Appeals March 28, 1911 (New York Electric Lines Co. v. Empire City Subway Co.)

Haight, J.

The New York Electric Lines Company, which we will hereafter call the relator, was incorporated on the 14th day of October, 1882, under the provisions of chapter 265 of the Laws of 1848 and acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, for the purpose of “ owning, constructing, using, maintaining and leasing lines of telegraph wires or other electric conductors for telegraphic and