Legal Opinion
Eastern Extension, Australasia & China Telegraph Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 19, 1920No. 357PublishedCited by 20 opinions
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clabke
The appellant, claimant, is the grantee from the Government of Spain of three concessions to lay down and operate submarine cables. The first one, in 1879, was for the exclusive privilege, for forty years, of constructing and operating a cable between the Island of Luzon and Hongkong. It was landed aUBolinao, on . the northerly coast of Luzon, and dispatches were transmitted to Manila and other places by government owned land lines, which were subject to interruption. This concession required that official messages be transmitted free and be given precedence. In 1898 a second concession,…
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