Eastern Extension, Australasia & China Telegraph Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. The facts, which involve the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hughes
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims which dismissed, upon demurrer, the petition of the claimant for the want of jurisdiction. 48 C. Cls. 33.
The petition averred that the claimant, a British corporation, secured from the Government of Spain, in the year 1879, a concession for the construction and operation of a submarine telegraph cable between the island of Luzon and Hong Kong, with an exclusive privilege for forty years, under which it maintained a cable from Hong Kong to Bolinao; and that in 1897, the Government of Spain granted a further concession for three submarine…
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