The ordinary use of such public highways, streets, works, railroads, bridges, trestles, or structures shall not be thereby obstructed, nor the navigation of such waters impeded, and just damages shall be paid to the owners of such lands, railroads, and turnpikes, by reason of the occupation of the lands, railroads, and turnpikes by the telegraph or telephone corporations.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 65-21-202
Obstruction of public ways prohibited
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Metropolitan Government v. Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc. (2007)
Most recently applied in Metropolitan Government v. Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc. (July 2007)
Acts 1885, ch. 66, § 1; Shan., § 1831; Code 1932, § 3095; T.C.A
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