Stock Quotation Telegraph Co. v. Board of Trade

This was an action brought by the Stock Quotation Telegraph Co. against the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago to recover damages for the breach of an alleged contract, whereby the defendant agreed to furnish the plaintiff market quotations for transmission to certain correspondents. It was alleged in the declaration that the defendant did wrongfully and injuriously cause and procure the disconnection of the telegraph wire running from defendant’s place of .business in Chicago to plaintiff’s office in Chicago, which said wire was used by defendant to transmit and send to plaintiff said…