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· 11/18/1878

Telegraph Co. v. Davenport

Citations

  • 97 U.S. 369
  • 24 L. Ed. 1047
  • 1878 U.S. LEXIS 1461
  • 7 Otto 369

How courts have described this case

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  • “The great principle that no one can be deprived of his property without his assent, except by the processes of the law, requires . . . that the property wrongfully transferred or stolen should be restored to its rightful owner”

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