Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBryan, J.
On the twentieth of April, 1893, the Mayor, and City Council of Baltimore passed an ordinance which imposed a tax of two dollars on each telegraph, telephone, electric-light or other pole, which should be used in any of the streets, lanes or alleys of the city. But the ordinance excepted trolley poles, which were used exclusively for stringing thereon wires for use in the propulsion of street passenger cars by electricity. The Postal Telegraph Cable Company used and maintained five hundred and nine tele*509graph, poles in the public streets of Baltimore, but refused to pay the tax on them. A suit…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- St. Louis v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1893
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