Postal Telegraph Co. v. City of Portland

WOLVERTON, District Judge.

This is a suit to enjoin the enforcement of a license tax exacted by the city from the complainant. The complainant is a telegraph company, engaged in sending and receiving messages to and t from different parts of the United States *255and to and from different countries of the world, as well as doing an intrastate business. The company is a domestic corporation; that is to say, it was organized under the laws of the state, having its principal place of business in the city of Portland. It has also accepted the provisions of the Post Roads Act of Congress, approved July…