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WESTERN UNION TEL. CO. v. FOSTER

Nos. 274, 275, 419, 420.

247 U.S. 105 (1918)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY ET AL. v. FOSTER AND MACLEOD ET AL., MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF MASSACHUSETTS. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY ET AL. v. MACLEOD ET AL., CONSTITUTING THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. NOBLE, AS PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY ET AL. NOBLE, AS PRESIDENT OF THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, v. UNITED TELEGRAM COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 20, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Rush Taggart and Mr. John G. Milburn, with whom Mr. Arthur Lord was on the briefs, for plaintiffs in error in Nos. 274 and 275.

Mr. Henry S. Robbins, with whom Mr. Walter F. Taylor was on the briefs, for appellant in Nos. 419 and 420.

Mr. Patrick Henry Kelley for Foster, defendant in error and appellee.

Mr. H. Ware Barnum, Assistant Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts, with whom Mr. Henry C. Attwill, Attorney General of the State of Massachusetts, was on the briefs, for Public Service Commission of Massachusetts.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

Four cases were argued together in this Court. The first two were suits in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, one a statutory petition by the telegraph companies to have an order of the Public Service Commission annulled, the other a bill by the Commission to have the same order enforced. The cases were consolidated and reserved on the pleadings for determination...

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