People ex rel. Cairo Telephone Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

The relator filed its petition in this court praying for a writ of mandamus directing the defendant to permit it to put one of its telephones in the telegraph office of defendant at Cairo, Ill., and requiring defendant, at its telegraph stations in said city, to receive telegraph messages from and transmit telegraph messages to the subscribers of relator at Cairo by means of its telephone exchange, in the same manner that defendant receives from and transmits telegraph messages to the subscribers of the Central Union Telephone Company by means of the telephone exchange of the latter company.…