This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol8 Partnership, Private Corporations, Public Corporations", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
It is held, that a municipal corporation has the right to authorize the use of space underneath sidewalks, provided it does not, by doing so, infringe the full, free and safe use of the street in all its parts by the public.8
 
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