Note 217 — Chapter VI · THE LAW OF CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY

Pierce v. Drew, 136 Mass., 75 (1883). The case grew out of plaintiff’s claim for damages because the town had granted a telegraph company the right to erect its poles, wires, etc., along the highway abutting plaintiff’s land. The highway being land in public use, plaintiff claimed indirect or consequential damages because of the erection of the poles, wires, etc., of the duly franchised telegraph company. Plaintiff’s complaint was (inter alia) that said poles, wires, etc., disfigured and depreciated his property. See also Bedford v. U. S., 192 U. S., 217 (1904); the principle therein further examined.