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EAST'N EXTENSION TEL. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 419.

231 U.S. 326 (1913)

EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA AND CHINA TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED, v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 1, 1913.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Louis Marshall for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Thompson, with whom Mr. William F. Norris was on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims which dismissed, upon demurrer, the petition of the claimant for the want of jurisdiction. 48 C. Cls. 33.

The petition averred that the claimant, a British corporation, secured from the Government of Spain, in the year 1879, a concession for the construction and operation of a submarine telegraph cable between the island of Luzon and Hong Kong, with...

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