Board of Public Works of Denver v. Denver Telephone Co.

Colorado Court of Appeals

Board of Public Works of Denver v. Denver Telephone Co.

16 Colo. App. 505

CourtColorado Court of Appeals

DecidedSeptember 15, 1901

DocketNo. 1554

StatusPublished

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Board of Public Works of Denver v. Denver Telephone Co., 16 Colo. App. 505 (Colo. Ct. App. 1901).

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Gunter, J.

Appellee as assignee of an alleged franchise to erect and maintain a telephone and telegraph system in the streets and alleys of the city of Denver, applied to appellants for S, permit to excavate an alley for laying telephone wires therein; being refused it brought mandamus against appellants. The district court granted a peremptory writ; from this ruling the case came here on appeal. At instance of appellants the case was transferred to the supreme court; from there it was remanded for want of jurisdiction.

Appellants contend as ground for reversal, illegality, for various reasons, of the original franchise, nonassignability thereof, exclusive power of appellants to grant or withhold the permit without their action being reviewable, insufficiency of the bond filed, inability of appellee to carry out the enter[506]*506prise, abandonment of rights, — if ever existent, — lack of good faith in the application for the permit.

The supreme court, Board of Public Works v. The Denver Telephone Company, 28 Colo. 401; 65 Pac. Rep. 35, in remanding held in effect that as the board' of public works in the matter of issuing this permit acted in a ministerial or administrative capacity only, it did not lie with it to question the right of appellee to the permit on any one of the above grounds. Such ruling is decisive of the matter.

Affirmed.

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Gunter, J.

Appellee as assignee of an alleged franchise to erect and maintain a telephone and telegraph system in the streets and alleys of the city of Denver, applied to appellants for S, permit to excavate an alley for laying telephone wires therein; being refused it brought mandamus against appellants. The district court granted a peremptory writ; from this ruling the case came here on appeal. At instance of appellants the case was transferred to the supreme court; from there it was remanded for want of jurisdiction.

Appellants contend as ground for reversal, illegality, for various reasons, of the original franchise, nonassignability thereof, exclusive power of appellants to grant or withhold the permit without their action being reviewable, insufficiency of the bond filed, inability of appellee to carry out the enter[506]*506prise, abandonment of rights, — if ever existent, — lack of good faith in the application for the permit.

The supreme court, Board of Public Works v. The Denver Telephone Company, 28 Colo. 401; 65 Pac. Rep. 35, in remanding held in effect that as the board' of public works in the matter of issuing this permit acted in a ministerial or administrative capacity only, it did not lie with it to question the right of appellee to the permit on any one of the above grounds. Such ruling is decisive of the matter.

Affirmed.

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