Stebbins v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

W. H. Stebbins and others brought numerous actions against the Western Union Telegraph Company to recover statutory penalties for failure to receive and transmit telegraph messages at a rate prescribed by chapter 38 of the Laws of 1898. The telegraph company brought this proceeding to enjoin the prosecution of such suits, and the injunction was allowed. Stebbins and his associates bring this proceeding in error to reverse that ■order and judgment.

Since the proceeding was brought the statute under which the penalties were sought to be recovered has been declared inoperative and void.…