Western Union Telegraph Co. v. American Union Telegraph Co.

Crawford, Justice.

The American Union Telegraph Company filed its bill in Richmond superior court to enjoin the Western Union Telegraph Company from interfering with it in erecting its lines of telegraph upon the several lines of railroad mentioned in the bill, and also to prevent said Western Union Telegraph Company from setting up certain contracts which it claimed to have with those railroads to the detriment of the American Union Telegraph Company.

Upon the hearing below, the chancellor refused to grant the injunction prayed for, on the ground that the Western Union had done nothing, and…