Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Pennsylvania R.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to and Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey.
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
These two cases are parts of one and the same controversy. They were argued together, and may be disposed of in a single opinion. One of them is before this court upon a writ of error to an order of the Circuit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, made January 20, 1903, dismissing a petition by which the Western Union Telegraph Company sought to acquire by condemnation the use of the right of way of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its branches for the telegraph company’s lines of telegraph. The other is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Pensacola Telegraph Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Ann Arbor RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Allegh. V. R. v. Pittsb. Junction R.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
- Pennsylvania Railroad Company's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1880
- Groff v. Bird-in-Hand Turnpike Co., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Lancaster County1889
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- Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co. v. WilliamsDistrict Court, D. Kansas · 1906
- Hudson v. KuszynskiConnecticut Superior Court · 1943
- Western Union Tel. Co. v. Pennsylvania Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania · 1903
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