American Electrical Cases (cited Am Electl. Cas.): Being a Collection of All the Important Cases (excepting Patent Cases) Decided in the State and Federal Courts of the United States from 1873 [to 1908] on Subjects Relating to the Telegraph, the Telephone, Electric Light and Power, Electric Railway, and All Other Practical Uses of Electricity, with Annotations, Volumen2William Weeks Morrill M. Bender, 1895 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
action agent Akron alleged American Bell appellant appellant's appellee applied authority averred Bell Telephone Bell Telephone Company cause cents charge cited in opinion claim common carrier complainant construction contract corporation damages defendant company defendant's delay delivered delivery demurrer dispatch duty electric electric current electrical conductors eminent domain erected error evidence ex rel facts failure furnish grant graph company held highway injunction injury instruments judgment jury liability municipal NOTE.-See Ohio operator ordinance owner pany party penalty person petition plaintiff plaintiff in error poles privilege purpose question railroad Railway reasonable received recover refused regulation rule sender sending sent series cited statute stipulation streets Supreme Court sustained tele telegram Telegraph Co telegraph lines Teleph Telephone Company telephone exchange tion transmission transmit Union Telegraph Company W. U. Tel Wager Swayne Western Union Telegraph wires
Pasajes populares
Página 726 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he...
Página 419 - Now if the special circumstances under which the contract was actually made were communicated by the plaintiffs to the defendants, and thus known to both parties, the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Página 694 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result...
Página 420 - But, on the other hand, if these special circumstances were wholly unknown to the party breaking the contract, he at the most could only be supposed to have had in his contemplation the amount of injury which would arise generally, and in the great multitude of cases not affected by any special circumstances, from such a breach of contract.
Página 626 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery or non-delivery of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Página 745 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Página 420 - For had the special circumstances been known, the parties might have specially provided for the breach of contract by special terms as to the damages in that case ; and of this advantage it would be very unjust to deprive them.
Página 50 - An Act to aid in the Construction of Telegraph Lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes...
Página 83 - Constitution leads to the conclusion that no State has the right to lay a tax on interstate commerce in any form, whether by way of duties laid on the transportation of the subjects of that commerce, or on the receipts derived from that transportation, or on the occupation or business of carrying it on, and the reason is that such taxation is a burden on that commerce, and amounts to a regulation of it, which belongs solely to Congress.
Página 502 - The company will not be liable for damages in any case where the claim is not presented in writing, within sixty days after sending the message.