New York Telephone Co. v. Siegel-Cooper Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 11, 1910, in favor of plaintiff upon the submission of a controversy pursuant to section 1279 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The nature of the controversy and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The plaintiff may not discriminate between its patrons as to rates, except where the service rendered or the conditions thereof are different.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 11, 1910, in favor of plaintiff upon the submission of a controversy pursuant to section 1279 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The nature of the controversy and the facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The plaintiff may not discriminate between its patrons as to rates, except where the service rendered or the conditions thereof are different. The plaintiff may not charge patrons receiving the same service different rates, and must charge all patrons receiving…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
The question presented by this appeal is whether a telephone company, with an exclusive right to use the streets of the city of New York in order to carry on its business, may make a discount of twenty-five per cent from its usual charges for telephone service, in favor of the city itself, regularly incorporated charitable institutions and regularly ordained clergymen, without entitling all its other patrons to a like discount for service of the same kind? This question is presented by an agreed statement of facts, which are so fully set forth in the opinion below that it is unnecessary to…
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