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WESTERN UNION TEL. CO. v. NEW HOPE

No. 101.

187 U.S. 419 (1903)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BOROUGH OF NEW HOPE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 5, 1903.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Silas W. Pettit, for plaintiff in error, with whom Mr. H.B. Gill, Mr. Robert M. Yardley, Mr. George H. Fearons and Messrs. Brown & Wells were on the brief.

Mr. William C. Ryan, for defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

It is conceded that the borough had the right in the exercise of its police power to impose a reasonable license fee upon telegraph poles and wires within its limits, and that an ordinance imposing such fee is to be taken as prima facie reasonable. But it is insisted that on...

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