# Pensacola Telegraph Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

> Supreme Court of the United States · March 25, 1878 · 96 U.S. 1

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9417108

## Case

- **Full name:** Pensacola Telegraph Company v. Western Union Telegraph Company
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** March 25, 1878
- **Citations:** 96 U.S. 1; 24 L. Ed. 708; 1877 U.S. LEXIS 1621
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Hunt
- **Judges:** Waite, Field, Hunt, Harlan
- **Cited by:** 239 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that it is interstate commerce to transmit information over interstate telegraph lines

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice Hunt.
I dissent, on the ground that the act of Congress was intended only to apply to telegraph lines constructed upon the public domain.
Mr. Justice Harlan did not sit in this case, nor take any part in deciding it.

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