LUDWIG v. WEST. UN. TEL. CO.

No. 45.

216 U.S. 146 (1910)

LUDWIG, SECRETARY OF STATE OF ARKANSAS, v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 21, 1910.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hal L. Norwood, Attorney General of the State of Arkansas, with whom Mr. Joseph M. Hill, Mr. William F. Kirby and Mr. Otis T. Wingo were on the brief for appellant in this case and for appellee in No. 8, argued simultaneously herewith.1

Mr. Rush Taggart and Mr. Henry D. Estabrook, with whom Mr. George B. Rose was on the brief, for appellee in this case and appellant in No. 8, argued simultaneously herewith.1


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The Western Union Telegraph Company, a corporation of New York, doing business, both interstate and intrastate, in Arkansas, as it had done for many years, brought this suit against O.C. Ludwig, Secretary of State of Arkansas, for the purpose of obtaining a decree that the statute of that State of May 13th, 1907, entitled "An Act to permit foreign corporations

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