[DOWNLOAD] "Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Town of Belen" by New Mexico Supreme Court " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. v. Town of Belen
- Author : New Mexico Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 26, 1952
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
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This is an appeal from the judgment of the District Court of Valencia County in a cause filed by the Town of Belen, New Mexico, a municipal corporation, plaintiff and appellee, against The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, a corporation, defendant and appellant. The Town of Belen sought to force and require the telephone company to accept a franchise granted by the Town of Belen by Ordinance No. 257 on February 14, 1949 to operate within the corporate limits of the Town of Belen and to use the streets, alleys and public ways for constructing and maintaining its poles, wires and equipment. The franchise so offered by the town was alleged to have been rejected by the telephone company. The ordinance offering and granting the franchise provided that the telephone company, in consideration of the granting of such franchise, should pay annually into the treasury of the town two per cent (2%) of its gross receipts from telephone service in the town or directly connected with its exchange service in said town, and contained various other provisions, among them the granting to the town by the company permission to use free of charge the poles of the company for the attaching and running of the towns low tension police and fire alarm wires. The offered franchise was to run for a period of 15 years but later was extended for a period of 25 years. The town prayed that the defendant telephone company be restrained from operating within the corporate limits of the town unless and until it obtained from the town permission or franchise as offered and for such other relief as might be just and proper.