COMMERCIAL CABLE CO. v. BURLESON

Nos. 815, 816.

250 U.S. 360 (1919)

COMMERCIAL CABLE COMPANY v. BURLESON ET AL. COMMERCIAL PACIFIC CABLE COMPANY v. BURLESON ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 9, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles E. Hughes, with whom Mr. William W. Cook was on the briefs, for appellants.

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Assistant to the Attorney General Todd was on the briefs, for appellees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE; delivered the opinion of the court.

By virtue of the Joint Resolution of July 16, 1918, [c. 154, 40 Stat. 904] considered in the Dakota Central Telephone Case, decided June 2, 1919, ante, 163, the President by proclamation dated November 2, 1918, [40 Stat. 1872], assumed control, possession, and supervision "of each and every marine cable system and every part thereof owned or controlled...

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