Richmond v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Citations
- 174 U.S. 761
- 19 S. Ct. 778
- 43 L. Ed. 1162
- 1899 U.S. LEXIS 1534
Syllabus
<p>The provisions in the act of July 24, 1866, entitled “.An act to aid in the construction of telegraph lines and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes,” and Rev. Stat. §§ 5263 to 5268, in which those provisions are preserved, have no application to telephone companies, whose business is that of electrically transmitting articulate speech between different points.</p>
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- analogizing the telephone to the telegraph in deciding whether a telephone company's business was within the purview of a congressional act relating to telegraph companies
- analogizing the telephone to the telegraph in deciding whether a telephone company’s business was within the purview of a congressional act relating to telegraph companies
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Judges: Harlan
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