 | William Lamartine Snyder - Antitrust law - 1906 - 654 pages
...by another upon the national rights which belong to all." II>. A Telegraph Company Is a Carrier. — A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...indispensable to those engaged to any considerable extent ir. commercial pursuits. Telegraph Co. v. Texas, 105 US 460. Taxation by State of Telegraph Company.... | |
 | Sidney Walter Jones - Telegraph - 1906 - 878 pages
...companies — and embrace the entire subject under one chapter. Telegraph and telephone companies occupy the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages,...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods ; 1 and while the nature of the business of these companies is quite different, yet the relation which... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce, Howard Clifford Joyce - Electric engineering - 1907 - 1014 pages
...telegraphic business and intelligence as the railroads and steam vessels." °3 Again, it is declared that a telegraph company " occupies the same relation to...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods." 64 § 24. Telegraph companies — Decisions that they are common carriers. — An early California... | |
 | United States - 1907 - 830 pages
...State was the thing desired. In the case of Telegraph Company v. Texas (105 US, 464), the court said : A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...as a carrier of messages, that a railroad company docs as a carrier of goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce and their business is commerce... | |
 | Law - 1908 - 554 pages
...commerce.7 In Telegraph Co. v. Texas,8 it was decided that intercourse by telegraph between the states is interstate commerce. Its language was: "A telegraph...transportation in different ways, and their liabilities are in many respects different, but they are, both indispensable to those engaged to any considerable extent... | |
 | Naval War College (U.S.) - War (International law) - 1908 - 188 pages
...Parties. General control of messages.—The Supreme Court of the United States stated in 1886 that— A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce ARTICLE 7. The High Contracting Parties reserve the right to stop the transmission of any private telegram... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1166 pages
...460, 26 L. ed. 1067, in which case Mr. Chief Justice Waite, speaking for the court said, page 464: 'A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods.' "While the general principles applied in these cases are not to be denied, there is a class of cases... | |
 | International law - 1908 - 188 pages
...Parties. General control of messages. — The Supreme Court of the United States stated in 1886 that — A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages that a raiiroad company does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce ABTICLB 7.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 632 pages
...p. 464: "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as 209 US Opinion of the Court. a carrier of messages that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods." While the general principles applied in these cases are not to be denied, there is a class of cases... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 630 pages
...127 U. S. 640, 32 L. ed. 311. Chief Justice Waite said in Western U. Teleg. Co. v. Texas, 105 US 460: "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...commerce, and their business is commerce itself." But it has been held that a city ordinance imposing a license fee upon every telegraph company or agency... | |
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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. 
