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" A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce, as a carrier of messages, that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. "
Albany Law Journal - Page 68
1888
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Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States ..., Book 33

United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1182 pages
...contested the constitutionality of this law, and the case came to this court, where it was said that a telegraph company occupies the same relation to...commerce, as a carrier of messages, that a railroad does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are carriers, and their business is commerce itself. The...
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, Volume 11

John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1890 - 1210 pages
...Pen. Tel. Co. v. WUT Co., 96 US i; WU T. Co. v. Pendleton, 122 US 347; Leloup *'. Mobile, 127 US 640. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...commerce, as a carrier of messages, that a railroad companv does as a carrier of goods. Tel. Co. v. Texas, 105 US 480. By the act of August 7th, 1888 (Sts....
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Lectures on the Constitution of the United States

Samuel Freeman Miller - Constitutional law - 1891 - 804 pages
...time the Constitution was adopted. their foreign and interstate business. A tele- LECTURE ix. graph company occupies the same relation to commerce, as...commerce, and their business is commerce itself." Telegraph Co. v. Texas, 105 US 460, 464. The opinion then goes on to decide that so much of the law...
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A Treatise on the Law of Carriers as Administered in the Courts of the ...

Robert Hutchinson - Carriers - 1891 - 1234 pages
...intelligence,1 and in a recent case,2 in the United States supreme court, Chief Justice Waite said : " A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods." And, certainly, though they cannot be regarded strictly as common carriers in the sense which the phrase...
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Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations: Whether with Or ..., Volume 2

Charles Fisk Beach - Corporation law - 1891 - 886 pages
...contested the constitutionality of this law, and the case came , to this court, where it was said that a telegraph company occupies the same relation to...commerce, as a carrier of messages, that a railroad does as a carrier of goods. . . . The case of Telegraph Co. v. Massachusetts, 125 US 530, was a ques-...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 27

Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1050 pages
...Am. St. Rep. 569. " A. Tel'-ijrajih Company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier oi messages that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. Both com. panies are instruments of commerce, and their business is commerce Itself. They do their transportation...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 27

Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 1060 pages
...outside as well as inside the statei Bogt v. Wilmington etc. RR Co., 109 NC 279; 26 Am. St. Rep. 569. "A Telegraph Company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier oí maisagea that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. Both com¡'inies are instruments of...
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Railways of Europe and America: Or, Government Ownership. With Notes from ...

Marion Todd - Railroads and state - 1893 - 322 pages
...Congress. 'A telegraph company,' says the court in Telegraph Company vs. Texas, 105 United States, 460,464, 'occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier...commerce, and their business is commerce itself.' * * "The Postmaster-General in 1800 established at the expense of the United States a line of stages...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 31

Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1176 pages
...were subject to the regulating power of congress in respect to their foreign and interstate business. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce, ami their business Is commerce Itself" The opinion then refers to rights held by the said telegraph...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 31

Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1288 pages
...were subject to the regulating power of congress In respect to their foreign and interstate bu4iness. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...carrier of messages, that a railroad company does as a carrierof goods. Both companies are Instruments of commerce, and their business Is commerce itself."...
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