Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Kansas Ex Rel. Coleman
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OF KANSAS. This action was brought by the State of Kansas in one of its courts against the Western Union Telegraph Company., a New York corporation, to obtain a decree ousting and restraining that corporation from doing, in Kansas, any telegraphic business that was wholly internal to that State, and not pursuant to some arrangement or to meet its contracts with, or obligations to, the Government of the United States.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OF KANSAS. This action was brought by the State of Kansas in one of its courts against the Western Union Telegraph Company., a New York corporation, to obtain a decree ousting and restraining that corporation from doing, in Kansas, any telegraphic business that was wholly internal to that State, and not pursuant to some arrangement or to meet its contracts with, or obligations to, the Government of the United States. Upon the petition of the Telegraph Company the case was removed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. But…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
The above extended statement would seem to be justified by the importance of this case.
The contentions of the company, to which particular attention will be directed, arc, in substance, that the requirement that it pay, for the benefit of the permanent school fund of the State, a given -per cent of its authorized capital, wherever and however employed, as a condition of its right to continue to do domestic business in Kansas, is a regulation which, by its necessary operation, directly burdens or embarrasses interstate .commerce, and,, therefore, is illegal under the commerce clause of the…
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