Western Union Tel. Co. v. Modesto Irrigation Co.

The plaintiff is a well-known corporation, organized under the laws of the state of New York, engaged in the business of telegraphy, having certain franchises, rights, and privileges granted by the government of the United States, and having many telegraph lines in California and in other parts of the United States and adjoining countries. The defendant, the Modesto Irrigation Company, is an irrigation district organized in July, 1887, under an act of the legislature of this state providing for the organization of irrigation districts, approved March 7, 1887, (Stats. 1887, p. 29,) and…