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WESTERN UNION TEL. CO. v. BOEGLI

No. 83.

251 U.S. 315 (1920)

40 S.Ct. 167

64 L.Ed. 281

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. BOEGLI.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 12, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Rush Taggart and Mr. Francis Raymond Stark for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Arthur W. Parry for defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The Telegraph Company challenged the right to subject it to a penalty fixed by a law of Indiana for failure to deliver promptly in that State a telegram sent there from a point in Illinois, on the ground that the Act of Congress of June 18, 1910, amending the Act to Regulate Commerce (36 Stat. 539, 545), had deprived the State of all power in the premises. The court conceding that if the act of Congress ...

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