 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1911 - 782 pages
...are subject to the regulating power of Congress in respect to their foreign and interstate business. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...commerce, and their business is commerce itself.* Hence, so far up at one point in this State and de- only therein in transit and are relivered at another... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Corporation law - 1911 - 782 pages
...are subject to the regulating power of Congress in respect to their foreign and interstate business. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...instruments of commerce, and their business is commerce itself.4 Hence, so far up at one point in this State and de- only therein in transit and are relivered... | |
 | American School (Lansing, Ill.), Howard Strickland Abbott - Corporation law - 1913 - 496 pages
...Next to transportation in importance as a means of commerce, is the communication of intelligence. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages, that a railway company does as a carrier of goods.» So far as its interstate i See also Oilman v. Phila.,... | |
 | William Mack, William Benjamin Hale - Law - 1917 - 1362 pages
...Ill; Western Union TeL Co. т. Texas. 105 US 460. 4C4. 24> L. ed. 1067 (where Walte. С. J.. says: "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...commerce as a carrier of messages, that a railroad comrir.y does as a carrier of goods. №th compar.ies ar« ¡r.strumer.ts of commerce, ar.d their business... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1914 - 804 pages
...their foreign and interstate business. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as n carrier of messages that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. Both companies am instruments of commerce, and their business Is commerce itself. Post Roads Act. — By Act of Congress... | |
 | Reinhold Klotz - German language - 1915 - 726 pages
...negligence in that particular was governed by the law of the state of the destination of the message.1 "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...messages that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods,"2 and has recently been brought within the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act.8 It has... | |
 | Sidney Walter Jones - Telegraph - 1916 - 1104 pages
...telegraphic business and intelligence as the railroads and steam vessels." °7 Again, it is declared that a telegraph company "occupies the same relation to...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods." B8 § 39. Alarm system — messenger service. — It has been held that where a telegraph company,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1334 pages
...21 Ann. Cas. S15; Western Union Tel. Co. v. Pendleton, 122 US 347, 7 Sun. Ct. 1126, 30 L. Ed. 1187. "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages lhat a railroad company does as a carrier of goods." Telegraph Co. v. Texas, 105 U. S. 460, 20 L. Ed.... | |
 | 1919 - 482 pages
...power of Congress. ' A telegraph company,' says the court in Telegraph Co. v. Texas (105 US, 460, 464), 'occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier...liabilities are in some respects different, but they are bbth indispensable to those engaged to any considerable extent in commercial pursuits.' That clause... | |
 | Puerto Rico. Office of the Attorney General - 1919 - 560 pages
...Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Alabama, 132 US 472, 476, the United States Supreme Court held that a telegraph company occupies the same relation to...commerce, as a carrier of messages, that a railroad does as a carrier of goods and the court said : ' ' The rule that the regulation of commerce, which... | |
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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. 
