People ex rel. Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Public Service Commission
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 15th day of January, 1920, directed to the Public Service Commission, Second District, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular their proceedings had in requiring the Western Union Telegraph Company, on and after January 1, 1920, to discontinue its practice of requiring the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company to pay cash for the transmission of…
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Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 15th day of January, 1920, directed to the Public Service Commission, Second District, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Albany all and singular their proceedings had in requiring the Western Union Telegraph Company, on and after January 1, 1920, to discontinue its practice of requiring the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company to pay cash for the transmission of intrastate messages delivered by it to said Western Union Telegraph Company. The opinion of the Public Service Commission is…
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The Public Service Commission, Second District, has ordered: “ That Western Union Telegraph Company shall, beginning January 1, 1920, discontinue its present practice of requiring Postal Telegraph-Cable Company to pay cash for such intrastate telegraph messages as shall be delivered to said Western Union Telegraph Company by Postal Telegraph-Cable Company for transmission, and shall in lieu thereof charge such messages to an account against Postal Telegraph-Cable Company which shall be rendered to said Postal Telegraph-Cable Company not more often than every thirty days; or in…
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