Public Grain & Stock Exchange v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Illinois Circuit Court
Motion to dissolve injunction in two cases. Gen. No. 43,416 and Gen. No. 43,415. Heard respectively before Judge Murray F. Tuley and Judge Thomas A. Moran.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion in First Case.
Tuley, J.:
This bill is filed by the complainant to restrain the defendant telegraph companies from removing from its place of business three “tickers,” and two Morse instruments placed there by the defendant companies, and to restrain them from cutting off and withdrawing from the complainant at their place of business information as to the market value of grain, provisions, stocks and other merchandise, upon the ground that the telegraph companies are the servants of the public, and under a duty by law which forbids them so acting.
It appears that the Western Union…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Pensacola Telegraph Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Board of Trade of Chicago v. Christie Grain & Stock Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1905
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Southern Express Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Vincent v. Chicago & Alton RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1868
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