SUSQUEHANNA TRUST & SAFE DEPOSIT CO. v. UNITED TEL. & TEL. CO.

No. 3309.

6 F.2d 179 (1925)

SUSQUEHANNA TRUST & SAFE DEPOSIT CO. v. UNITED TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

June 15, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Clement, of Sunbury, Pa., and John G. Reading and Henry C. Hicks, both of Williamsport, Pa., for appellant.

J. Fred Schaffer, of Sunbury, Pa., and Charles L. Miller and John E. Malone, both of Lancaster, Pa., for appellees.

Before BUFFINGTON and WOOLLEY, Circuit Judges, and MORRIS, District Judge.


WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

This case had its rise in the early days of the telephone, when numberless local corporations, not realizing the operative and commercial scope of the invention, built short lines and established small systems in limited areas. They did this largely on borrowed money. The outcome of these adventures, as their history shows, was feeble success or complete failure, resulting ultimately in receiverships or absorption by larger concerns. After...

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