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EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TEL. CO. v. U.S.

No. 357.

251 U.S. 355 (1920)

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

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 12, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Louis Marshall for appellant.

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

MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant, claimant, is the grantee from the Government of Spain of three concessions to lay down and operate submarine cables. The first one, in 1879, was for the exclusive privilege, for forty years, of constructing and operating a cable between the Island of Luzon and Hongkong. It was landed at Bolinao, on the northerly coast of Luzon, and dispatches were transmitted to Manila and other places by government...

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