MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
Whether the fifty per cent penalty clause of the act of 1893 contravenes the Constitution of the United States is the question presented on this writ. If it does not, the question whether that penalty was properly included in the judgment rendered against the telegraph company was for the determination of the state courts.
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