Western Telegraph Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

In 1877, the complainant, the Western Telegraph Company of Baltimore City, filed a bill against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad asking, substantially, that the road might be compelled to carry out a certain agreement which it had made with the complainant. In 1885, the complainant filed an amended bill making other defendants, and among them the West-tern Union Telegraph Company.

In lSII, and about a month before the filing of the original bill above referred to, the Western Union Telegraph Company filed a bill against the Baltimore &,Ohio Railroad, in the Circuit Court of the United States for…