Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Associated Press
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in its favor, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th day of March, 1918, upon the decision of the court after a trial before the court, a jury having been waived.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The parties are domestic corporations, and, as their respective names imply, the plaintiff was engaged in business as a telegraph company having and maintaining lines of poles and wires throughout the United States for that purpose, and the defendant was a news agency engaged in obtaining and transmitting news items by wires for publication in newspapers owned or represented by its members.
The plaintiff alleged in separate counts seven causes of action based on contracts in writing for rent for the exclusive use of telegraph circuits between points in different States, and three…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Call Publishing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Associated PressAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1916