Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Call Publishing Co.
Nebraska Supreme Court
Error from the district court of Lancaster county. Tried below before Tibbets, J. cited: Interstate Commerce Commission v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 43 Fed. Rep., 37; Bayles v. Kancas P. R. Co., 40 Am. & Eng. R. Cases [Col.], 42; McNees v. Missouri P. R. Co., 22 Mo. App., 224; Hays v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 12 Fed.
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Error from the district court of Lancaster county. Tried below before Tibbets, J. cited: Interstate Commerce Commission v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 43 Fed. Rep., 37; Bayles v. Kancas P. R. Co., 40 Am. & Eng. R. Cases [Col.], 42; McNees v. Missouri P. R. Co., 22 Mo. App., 224; Hays v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 12 Fed. Rep., 309; Schofield v. Lake Shore <& M. S. R. Co,, 43 O. St., 571; Lotspeich v. Central R. & B. Co., 73 Ala., 306; Cleveland, C., C. & I. R. Co. v. Closser, 45 Am. & Eng. R. Ca cited, contending the service performed for the two papers was similar: (Manufacturers’ & Jobbers’ Union of…
1Opinion of the Court
Irvine, C.
The Call Publishing Company is a corporation publishing a daily newspaper in the city of Lincoln. It brought this suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company,, alleging that since July 1, 1888, it had been receiving from the telegraph company the dispatches of the Associated Press collected by that organization at Chicago and transmitted daily from Chicago to Lincoln as well as to 'other cities; that thei’e existed between the Associated Press and the telegraph company a contract which prevented the Cali Company from procuring its news otherwise than over the *329lines of the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Houston & T. C. R'y Co. v. Rust & DinkinsTexas Supreme Court · 1882
- Savitz v. O. & M. Ry. Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1893
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