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Title: Western Union Telegraph Company v. Western and Atlantic Railroad Company
Author : United States Supreme Court
Release Date : January 01, 1875
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 80 KB

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Mr. J. Hubley Ashton for the appellant. The agreement between the State and the Western Union Telegraph Company neither constituted nor contemplated a sale of the wire, but merely the right of the State to use it and its equipments for the purposes mentioned in such agreement, subject to all the terms, conditions, and obligations therein expressed. The scheme and objects of the contract, as clearly set forth in the recital, were 'to provide necessary telegraph facilities' for the State, as proprietor and manager of the railroad; to settle the terms upon which the telegraph company should occupy the railroad 'with the line or lines of telegraph wires belonging to' that company; and to define the business relations between it and the State.