Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Boegli
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF INDIANA. . The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
The Telegraph Company challenged the right to subject it to a penalty fixed by a law of Indiana for failure to deliver promptly in that State a telegram sent there from a point in Illinois, on the ground that the Act of Congress of June 18,1910, amending the Act to Regulate Commerce (36 Stat. 539, 545), had deprived the State of all power in the premises. The court conceding that if the act of Con gress dealt with the subject the state statute would be inoperative, imposed the penalty on the ground that the Act of 1910 did not extend to that field. The correctness of this conclusion is the…
2Cited by47 opinions
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- O'Brien v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1940
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. PriesterSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Marcus v. AT & T CORP.District Court, S.D. New York · 1996
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