Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Swain

An act approved April 8th, 1885, “prescribing certain duties of telegraph and telephone companies, prohibiting discrimination between patrons,” etc., provides that every telegraph company, with a line of wires wholly or partly within this State, shall during the usual office hours receive and transmit dispatches with impartiality and in good faith, and in the order of time in which they are received, and shall in no manner discriminate between any of its patrons, etc. A violation of any of the provisions, of the act renders the person or company liable to any party aggrieved in a penalty of…