Mayo v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This ease was commenced before the Railroad Commission by petition of plaintiff, a resident of Mount Airy, who complained that in two instances the defendant corporation was negligent, and unnecessarily delayed the transmission of messages between himself and his correspondents at Henderson and Winston, to his serious inconvenience and damage.
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This ease was commenced before the Railroad Commission by petition of plaintiff, a resident of Mount Airy, who complained that in two instances the defendant corporation was negligent, and unnecessarily delayed the transmission of messages between himself and his correspondents at Henderson and Winston, to his serious inconvenience and damage. The petitions alleged that the defendant is subject to the act of Assembly establishing the Railroad Commission and proAÜding for the general supervision of railroad, steamboat or canal companies, express and telegraph companies doing business in the…
1Opinion of the Court
MacRae, J.:
We bad occasion, at the last Term, in the Express Co. v. Railroad Co., 111 N. C., 463, to consider the scope and purpose of the Railroad Commission Act, ch. 320, Acts of 1891, and to remark upon the failure of the act to define with more exactness the powers and duties of this important function. There was no difficulty, however, in reaching the conclusion that ample authority was conferred upon the Commission to entertain and pass upon complaints for violations of the rules and regulations respecting matters embraced within section 4 of the act. We may now extend this conclusion…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Atlantic Express Co. v. Wilmington & Weldon RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1892
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- State v. LouisvilleSupreme Court of Florida · 1906
- State ex rel. Board of Railroad Commissioners v. Wilmington & Weldon RailroadSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1898
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