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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. v. TARRANT COUNTY

No. 17071.

450 S.W.2d 763 (1970)

The WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Appellant, v. TARRANT COUNTY, Texas, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied February 20, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Fox Holt and Stephen L. Mayo, Dallas, for appellant.

Frank Coffey, Dist. Atty., and Don E. Burdette, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, for appellee.

OPINION

LANGDON, Justice.

This was a suit for declaratory judgment brought by appellant, Western Union Telegraph Company, against appellee, Tarrant County, by which appellant sought reimbursement for costs incurred by it in salvaging and rerouting its telegraph cables (plus conduit rental charges, damages and attorney's fees) as necessitated by the abandonment and closing of a section of a public street in which its cables were situated pursuant to authority...

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