The Law of Electric Wires in Streets and Highways
Chicago: Callaghan & Co. 1892. First Edition. [4], v-xi, [1-blank], 190 pages. 8vo. 6 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches. Brown buckram binding with thin read leather spine label. Endpapers browned. Previous owner name "E. N. Williams, 9/9/92" inked on page 1. Marginal dampstaining near spine throughout. A sound copy. Good. cloth. [28712]
"It is always interesting to observe the manner in which the courts deal with new inventions and apply old principles of law to new conditions. Invention within a few years past has been especially directed to new applications of electricity, iand in order to serve the new uses that have been found for it, streets and highways have been taken as convenient lines for the distribution of the electric current. The use of the streets for this purpose has given rise to some legal controversies, and it seems desirable that the decisions on the subject should be collected and examined in order to see how the principles of the law relating to the streets have been applied to these new uses.
The poles and wires for the electric railway have attracted especial attention to the subject within the last two or three years, and it was a discussion of these in an article I wrote for the Harvard Law Review for Januarl 1891, ,that suggested a more careful examination of the law relating to the use of streets and roads of all kinds for electric wires, whether overhead or underground. Edqward Q. Keasbey, Newark New Jersey, June 1, 1892" (preface)
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