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N.Y. ELECTRIC LINES v. EMPIRE CITY SUBWAY

No. 63.

235 U.S. 179 (1914)

NEW YORK ELECTRIC LINES COMPANY v. EMPIRE CITY SUBWAY COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 30, 1914.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alton B. Parker and Mr. J. Aspinwall Hodge, with whom Mr. Henry A. Gildersleeve was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Edmund L. Mooney, with whom Mr. Charles T. Russell and Mr. Frederick A. Card were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to review the denial by the state court of an application for a writ of peremptory mandamus directing the Empire City Subway Company (Limited) to lease space in its conduits in the City of New York to the plaintiff in error.

In the year 1884, the legislature of the State of New York required that `all telegraph, telephonic and electric...

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