Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. City of Mobile
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Alabama
In Equity. Bill by Postal Telegraph-Cable Company against the City of Mobile. Decree for complainant.
1Opinion of the Court
TOULMIN, District Judge.
The allegations of complainant’s bill are as follows:
First. The complainant, the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, is a corporation, incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware, and that it has accepted the provisions of the act of Congress approved July 24, 1866 (chapter 230, 14 Stat. 221), and the amendments and supplements thereto, and is operating under the terms of said *956act and in accordance with its provisions. That by virtue thereof its poles and wires have been at all times, and are now, used for the transmission of telegraph messages for the United…
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- Lyng v. MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
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