State ex rel. Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Holm
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Hpon tbe relation of Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Company the district court for Meeker county granted its alternative writ of mandamus directing Prank Oscar Holm, as village clerk of the village of Litchfield, to accept and file in his office the declaration or surrender of franchise and sign the proposed certificate or some other certificate complying with the provisions- of section 15, chapter 152, Laws 1915, and file the same with the Eailroad and Warehouse…
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Hpon tbe relation of Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Company the district court for Meeker county granted its alternative writ of mandamus directing Prank Oscar Holm, as village clerk of the village of Litchfield, to accept and file in his office the declaration or surrender of franchise and sign the proposed certificate or some other certificate complying with the provisions- of section 15, chapter 152, Laws 1915, and file the same with the Eailroad and Warehouse Commission. The matter was heard before Qvale, J., who quashed the writ. From the judgment entered pursuant to the order for…
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
Proceeding in mandamus. By chapter 152, p. 208, Laws 1915, the *282legislature undertook to place all telephone companies, doing business in this state, under the supervision and control of the state Eailroad and Warehouse Commission, vesting that body with the same jurisdiction, control and supervisory power over telephone companies as it already had over railroad and express companies. -The acts prescribing the power and duties of the commission in respect to railroads and express -companies are made to apply to telephone companies. The commission is given the exclusive right to grant authority…
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- City of Worcester v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1905
- City of Chicago v. O'ConnellIllinois Supreme Court · 1917
- City of Worcester v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1902
- Merchants National Bank v. City of East Grand ForksSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1905
- State ex rel. Arpin v. GeorgeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
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- Minneapolis Gas Co. v. ZimmermanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1958
- Western States Utilities Co. v. City of WasecaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1954
- Goodrich v. Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1921
- Minnesota Gas Company v. Public Service Com., Etc.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1974
- City of St. Paul v. Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1935
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