No person or corporation building and maintaining telephone or electric light or power wires or fixtures, or electrical wires, conductors or fixtures of any kind shall, by reason of any occupation or use of any buildings or lands for the support of the wires of such person or corporation, or by reason of such wires passing over or through any buildings or lands, acquire by the continuance of such use or occupation any prescriptive right to so occupy or use the same. No length of possession, user or occupancy of any buildings or land, or adverse to any easement therein or right thereto belonging to a telephone or electric distribution company, and used or acquired for use for its corporate purposes, shall create or continue any right in or to such land, or adverse to any such easement.
(1949 Rev., S. 5648; P.A. 14-134, S. 31.)
History: P.A. 14-134 deleted references to telegraph and changed “electric light or power corporation” to “electric distribution company”, effective June 6, 2014.
Trial court properly determined that statute precluded defendants from invoking the law of adverse possession to justify their continued unauthorized use of plainitff utility company's property; defendants' claim that statute was inapplicable because waters of lake were not “buildings or land” was unavailing given that dock was attached to land owned by plaintiff. 92 CA 753.
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