Iron Age Publishing Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 2d August, 1887, by the Iron Age Publishing Company, a domestic.corporation organized under the general statutes in 1882, against the News Publishing Company, and the Morning Herald Publishing Company, two domestic corporations also incorporated under the general statutes; the Western Union Telegraph Company, a corporation organized under the laws of New…
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Jefferson. Heard before the Hon. Thomas Cobbs. The bill in this case was filed on the 2d August, 1887, by the Iron Age Publishing Company, a domestic.corporation organized under the general statutes in 1882, against the News Publishing Company, and the Morning Herald Publishing Company, two domestic corporations also incorporated under the general statutes; the Western Union Telegraph Company, a corporation organized under the laws of New York, but having an office and doing business at Birmingham; the New York Associated Press, and the Western Associated…
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The bill is one in the nature of specific performance, seeking, by the auxiliary force of an injunction, to prevent the breach of an alleged contract' by the New York Associated Preso selling, as is insisted, to the complainant — the Iron Age Publishing Company — an exclusive right to receive and publish at Birmingham, Alabama, all of the Associated Press Dispatches gathered and prepared for the press by the New York company, and transmitted over the telegraph lines of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which body corporate is also made a party defendant to the bill. The breach complained…
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