Copland v. Wireless Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by J. P. Copland against the American De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company, heard by Judge George H. Brown and a jury, at May Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of Daxus Cbunty. From a judgment for the plaintiff the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClabk, C. J.
Tbis action against a “wireless telegraph company,” which now makes its first appearance in' this Court, proves the oft-repeated observation that every phase of life, the customs, pursuits and progress of a people, soon or late, are photographed in tire records of its Courts, as flies are preserved in amber and as the rays of the sun axe imprisoned in the diamond.
The summons was served upon the local operator who the Cburt found as a fact was in sole charge of the defendant’s property at that point and in control of its business, and has received messages from ships at sea for pay, though the…
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