 | United States - 1923 - 806 pages
...commerce, and is unconstitutional. Adalr v. US, 208 US 161. Telegraph and telephone companies. — A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...of commerce and their business is commerce itself. Telegraph Co. v. Texas, 105 US 460. Ships and shipping. — In general. — The power to regulate commerce... | |
 | Kansas. Supreme Court, Elliot V. Banks, William Craw Webb, Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph, Gasper Christopher Clemens, Thomas Emmet Dewey, Llewellyn James Graham, Oscar Leopold Moore, Earl Hilton Hatcher, Howard Franklin McCue - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 894 pages
...Waite said : "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to comHardy v. AT & SF Rid. Co. merce as a carrier of messages, that a railroad company...of commerce, and their business is commerce itself. ... A specific tax on each message, so far as it operates on private messages sent out of the state,... | |
 | Law - 1896 - 380 pages
...tax on interstate commerce. Chief Justice Waite, speaking for the Court, held that it was, and that "a telegraph company occupies the same relation to...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. There is a division of this branch of the subject that is sometimes classified as a separate head,... | |
 | Missouri. Courts of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 830 pages
...[Western Union Tel.- Co. v. Milling Co., 218 US 406; Western Union Tel. Co. v. iPendleton, 122 US 347.] "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods," (Telegraph Co. v. Texas, 105 US 460), and therefore the many announcements of the exclusive control... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1086 pages
...UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. GEO. H. FEARONS, OF COUNSEL. 1. The Western Union is a common carrier and "occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods." Its "business is commerce itself." 105 US, 464. 2. The Federal Constitution vests In Congress alone... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1084 pages
...Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Texas, 105 US 460, the supreme court of the United States said: "The telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages that the railroad company does as the carrier of goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce, and... | |
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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. 
