National Tel. News Co. v. Western Union Tel. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The bill in the Circuit Court was by appellee, a corporation of New York, against the appellants, The National Telegraph News Company, a corporation of Illinois, and F. E. Crawford and A. K. Brown, citizens of Illinois; and the appeal is from an interlocutory order restraining the appellants, and each of them, their servants, agents and employés, from copying…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The bill in the Circuit Court was by appellee, a corporation of New York, against the appellants, The National Telegraph News Company, a corporation of Illinois, and F. E. Crawford and A. K. Brown, citizens of Illinois; and the appeal is from an interlocutory order restraining the appellants, and each of them, their servants, agents and employés, from copying from the appellee’s electrical instruments and printing machines, known as tickers, for the purpose of publishing, selling…
1Opinion of the CourtGrosscup, Circuit Judge
The appellee, the Western Union Telegraph Company, does a general telegraphing business, having offices in every state, village, hamlet and railroad station in the country, and wires connecting the same with central offices through the country.
About 1881 there was invented an instrument which, by means of a type wheel, actuated by electrical impulse, automatically prints in plain, ordinary type, upon a strip of paper, messages transmitted electrically from a distance. The instrument is now generally known as the “ticker,” and is commonly found in the offices of brokers, bankers and other…
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