 | Law - 1920 - 496 pages
...influence of state regulation." It had been previously said by the Supreme Court that "the telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as...instruments of commerce and their business is commerce itself.31 In the Croninger Case, the Express Company set up as a defense to the action to •ecover... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 506 pages
...Court that intercourse by the telegraph between the states is interstate commerce ; that a telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods ; that both companies are instruments of commerce, and their business is commerce itself ; that they... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 572 pages
...the regulating power of Congress in respect to their foreign and inter-state business. A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as...indispensable to those engaged to any considerable extent iu commercial pursuits. Congress, to facilitate the erection of telegraph lines, has by statute authorized... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 1130 pages
...constitutionality of this law, and the case came to this oourt, where It was said that a telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce, as a carrier of messages, that a railroad does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are carriers, and their business Is commerce Itself. The... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1884 - 824 pages
...of Congress. "A telegraph wmpany," says the court in Telegraph Company v, Texas, 105 US, 4'ÏU, 464, "occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier...instruments of commerce, and their business is commerce itstilf. They do their transportation in different ways, and their liabilities are in some respects... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 808 pages
...constitutionality of this law, and the case came to this court, where it was said that a telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages, that a- railroad does as a carrier of goods. Both companies are carriers, and their business is commerce itself. The... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1885 - 732 pages
...such embarrassments." In Telegraph Co. r. Texas, 105 US 460, Chief Justice "Waite said: "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as...of commerce, and their business is commerce itself. * * * A specific tax on each message, so far as it operates on private messages sent out of the State,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 956 pages
...such embarrassments." In Telegraph Co. v. Texas, 105 US 460, Chief Justice WAITE said : "A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as...of commerce, and their business is commerce itself. * * * A specilic tax on each message, so far as it operates on private messages sent out of the state,... | |
 | Horace Gay Wood - Railroad law - 1885 - 758 pages
...midst of such embarrassments.' In Telegraph Co. r. Texas, 105 US 460, WAITE, CJ, said: 'A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as...of commerce, and their business is commerce itself. ... A specific tax on each message, so far as it operates on private messages sent out of the State,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 994 pages
...etc., R. Co. V. Edwards, 227 US 2G5, 33 Sup. Ct. 2C2, 57 L. Ed. 506. It has been held that a telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as...that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods ; that both companies are instruments of commerce, and their business is commerce itself. Reed v. Western... | |
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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. 
