LOUISIANA R.R. COMM. v. CUMBERLAND TEL. CO.

No. 182.

212 U.S. 414 (1909)

RAILROAD COMMISSION OF LOUISIANA v. CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 23, 1909.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. E. Howard McCaleb, Jr., with whom Mr. Walter Guion, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. William L. Granbery for appellee.


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

The complainant herein is a citizen of the State of Kentucky, while the defendant is a citizen of the State of Louisiana, and a case of diverse citizenship therefore appears on the record. The complainant is transacting its business in several States, in a territory which is said to be four hundred miles wide and one thousand miles long, beginning in Indiana and Illinois...

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