Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota. Suit in equity by the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Companjr, and the Great-Northern Railway Company, as its successor, against the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Northwestern Telegraph Company. From the decree, all parties appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
HOOK, Circuit Judge.
This was a suit to determine the respective 'rights and interests of the parties in telegraph lines on the right of way of what is now known as the Great Northern System of railroads, extending from the state of Minnesota to the Pacific Ocean. The bill was filed in 1893 by a predecessor of the present appellant, the Great Northern Railway Company, and it asserted the telegraph lines had been built under contracts which had expired, and that as the lines were affixed to the soil of the right of way they consequently became its property. The position of the telegraph company…
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