Crown Castle Negligence Complaint Seeks $23,000 Recovery for Damaged Cable

Contractor U.S. Utility Services caused more than $23,000 in damage to Crown Castle’s underground fiber optic cable while excavating with mechanized equipment in February 2020 at a location in West Palm Beach, Florida, resulting in the loss of use of that cable, alleged Crown Castle’s negligence complaint Friday (docket 50-2023-CC-014005-XXXA-MB) in 15th Judicial Circuit Court in Palm Beach County. Crown Castle’s cable “constitutes movable property, for which Crown Castle has the right of peaceable, undisturbed possession,” said the complaint. U.S. Utility “interfered with said possession when it knowingly and intentionally excavated” without maintaining “due clearance” of the cable, it said.