Baltimore & O. R. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the Únited States for the Southern District of New York. Suit by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company against the Western Union Telegraph Company. From a decree for complainant (241 Fed. 162), defendant appeals.
1Per curiam
The real contest in this case is between the plaintiff and defendant on one side and the Interstate Commerce Commission on the other, and the sole question presented in, argument or by assignment of error is whether, under the act to regulate commerce, as amended June 18, 1910, it is lawful for railway and telegraph companies to observe the terms of a contract made between them (and lawful when made) long before passage of the statute referred to. We express no opinion on any other point.
The District Court (Mayer, J.) has written an ample and correct statement of facts taken from the…
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