 | 1889 - 568 pages
...(Revised Statutes, sec. 3,364). The complainant accepted the provisions of the law of Congress in 1867. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce, and their business... | |
 | Kansas. Supreme Court, Elliot V. Banks, William Craw Webb, Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph, Gasper Christopher Clemens, Thomas Emmet Dewey, Llewellyn James Graham, Oscar Leopold Moore, Earl Hilton Hatcher, Howard Franklin McCue - 1908 - 1054 pages
...were subject to the regulating power of congress in respect to their foreign and interstate business. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce, and their business... | |
 | 1883 - 660 pages
...were subject to the regulating power of Congress in respect to their foreign and* interstate business. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to...commerce, as a carrier of messages, that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce, and their business... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - 1917 - 1084 pages
...Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Texas, 105 US 460, the supreme court of the United States said: "The telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages that the railroad company does as the carrier of goods. Both companies are instruments of commerce, and... | |
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A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods. 
