Postal Cable Telegraph Co. v. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co.
District Court, M.D. Tennessee
In Equity. Suit by tlie Postal Cable Telegraph Company against the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company. On motion for preliminary injunction to restrain defendant from removing its telephone instruments from complainant’s offices in Nashville, and certain other towns and cities in Tennessee, and from refusing to furnish telephone. service to complainant at rates charged and paid by other patrons of the company having telephones in their business houses.
1Opinion of the Court
SANFORD, District Judge.
I am of opinion that the motion of the complainant telegraph company should be granted so as to enjoin the defendant telephone company pending this litigation from removing its telephone instruments in the office of the telegraph company in Nashville and other towns and cities in Tennessee, and from refusing to furnish such instruments and telephone service to the telegraph company at the same rates as heretofore in all such towns and cities where *728the telegraph company has been heretofore paying merely the flat rates paid by other patrons of the telephone company…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Donovan v. Pennsylvania Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1905
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Southern Express Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Call Publishing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Hockett v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1886
- Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1887
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3Cited by9 opinions
- North Carolina Public Service Co. v. Southern Power Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1922
- North Carolina Public Service Co. v. Southern Power Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1919
- Home Telephone Co. v. People's Telephone & Telegraph Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1911
- United States Telephone Co. v. Central Union Telephone Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1913
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Commercial Pacific Cable Co.California Supreme Court · 1918
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