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Show KOADS FALL OUT. THE STREET RAILWAYS SQUARE OFF FOR A BITTER ENGAGEMENT. Complaint anil Crow-Complaint., Injunction, Injunc-tion, anil Counter Injunction! Fired Into the Court Koom The lungers , That Slumber In the Trol eye. The electric railway compinies are out in war paint and Judge Y.unv as the otlicial Messiah will rerV-ct1 t le battle. The first pun was discharged by Tho Rapid Transit company who recently instituted proceedings in tht district court to prevent mid restrain the Salt Lake City street Railway company from cutting, detaching or in any way intoifcring with the trolly wires at street intersections. Tho petitioner alleges thai the lines of tho respective companies intersect at divers street crossings, and that at many of these crossings plaintiff has borne, exclusively, the expense of crossovers cross-overs and in every case the respective wires have been connected by insulating insulat-ing crossingi, which is the only safe method of operating; that although tho connections have operated with entire practicability, defend int threatens threat-ens to break or cut them and to detach tho trolley wires of the two companies, leaving them liable to contact without insulation, insula-tion, thereby imperiling the property of plaintiff. In answer to th foregoing complaint defendant denies that it has in' any instance in-stance connected tho cross-over of the in fii a u-irnu 1,. .. 1 n u'i , 1 t oil .'Pna. ing attaching the trolley wires of tho two companies: it further denies tho allegation al-legation of plainlilt that tho only safe method of operating the respective roads at intersections is by attaching the wires with any insulated crossing or that any other method of crossing would cause continued danger to tho property of tho two companies', or cause any interruption what ever iu the operation oper-ation of the lines; denies that no better method of construction has yet been devised for such intersaetions; denies that that the defendant threatens to break or cut tho sa!d c mnections or attach at-tach the said trolley wires of the plaintiff plain-tiff at such intersections, so as to leave the same liable to contact without insulation in-sulation and thereby endangering the property of the plaintiff. This answer is suplemented by across I complaint, the defendant atlirmingthat prior to any attempted construction n the part of" plaint ill', defendant had put in operation at great expense a system of street railway in the city; that within with-in two weeks before this action was brought the plaintiff wrongfully and without right attached its trolley wires to tho wires of the defendant, and in many cases the insulating was crude an p imperfect; that the result of operating oper-ating the roads under such circumstances circum-stances was that thetrollev wires of the defendant were burned off, and the electric elec-tric current short circuited three times in one day; that the result of this short circuiting was that machinery at the defendant's central station was burned out, stopping the operation of the road for some time and entailing great e-pense e-pense upon the defendant; that the positive currents over the wires of the plaintiff running counter to tho positive currents of the defendant neutralize by contact or induction, the current ou the wires of the defendant; that tho connection con-nection already made by the plaintiff with the wires of thedefendant threaten to work considerable damage to the defendant; that the defendant's franchise fran-chise does not subject it to have its wires or (racks interfered with by any company in any manner, and that the plaintiff has not been granted the right to make such connections. The defendant therefore prays ar injunction in-junction restraining plaintiff, tho Rapid Transit company, from any connection con-nection with the wires of the Salt Lako Street Railway company. The case premises to be hotly contested. con-tested. Parley Williams, Esq., appearing appear-ing for plaintiff and Judge J. L. Rawlins Raw-lins for defendant. Arguments will be heard in the matter mat-ter as soon a it can be reached. |