WESTERN UNION TEL. CO. v. CALL PUB. CO.

No. 117.

181 U.S. 92 (1901)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. CALL PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 15, 1901.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Rush Taggart for plaintiff in error. Mr. John F. Dillon was on his brief.

Mr. Franklin W. Collins and Mr. John M. Stewart for defendant in error submitted on their brief.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The contention of the telegraph company is substantially that the services which it rendered to the publishing company were a matter of interstate commerce; that Congress has sole jurisdiction over such matters, and can alone prescribe rules and regulations therefor; that it had not at the time these services were rendered prescribed any regulations concerning them; that there is no national...

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