Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Boegli

Citations

• 251 U.S. 315
• 40 S. Ct. 167
• 64 L. Ed. 281
• 1920 U.S. LEXIS 1708

Syllabus

<p>• An act of Congress regulating a subject of interstate commerce is not to be narrowly construed for the purpose of preserving the state power over the same subject previously enjoyed in the absence of federal legislation. P. 316.</p> <p>The Act of June 18,1910, c. 309, 36 Stat. 545, brought telegraph companies under the Act to Regulate Commerce and under the administrative control of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and so subjected such companies to a uniform national rule, incompatible with a power in the States to inflict penalties for failure to make prompt delivery of interstate messages. Id. Postal Telegrwph-Cable Co. v. WarrenModwin Lumber Co., ante, 27.</p> <p>187 Indiana, 238, reversed.</p>