Baltimore & O. Tel. Co. v. Interstate Tel. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. In Equity. Bill by the Interstate Telegraph Company against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company aid the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company of Baltimore County to compel the payment by the railroad company of a judgment recovered by complainant against the telegraph company. Decree for complainant 51 Fed. Eep. 19. Defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONTON, District Judge.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company used in connection with its railroad system lines of telegraph wires, with poles and plant. They facilitated the business of the railroad. With the view of diminishing the expense of this telegraphic system, and of increasing its usefulness, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company determined to open it to use by the public. Pursuing this plan, it extended its lines in many directions. Between the years 1877 and 1885, it established a system of more than <>,000 miles of poles, and 47,000 miles of wire, costing millions of dollars.…
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