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Title: Western Union Telegraph Company v. Attorney General Commonwealth Massachusetts
Author : Supreme Court of the United States
Release Date : January 19, 1888
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 91 KB

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The action was commenced in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, sitting in equity, by an information on behalf of the Commonwealth, by its Attorney General, at the relation of the treasurer thereof, Alanson W. Beard. It was afterwards removed, upon motion of the defendant, the Western Union Telegraph Company, into the Circuit Court of the United States. The object of the information was to enforce the collection of a tax levied by the proper authorities of the State upon the telegraph company, and to enjoin it from the further operation of its telegraph lines within the territorial limits of the Commonwealth until that tax was paid.