A Treatise Upon the Law of Telegraphs: With an Appendix, Containing the General Statutory Provisions of England, Canada, the United States, and the States of the Union, Upon the Subject of Telegraphs (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Treatise Upon the Law of Telegraphs: With an Appendix, Containing the General Statutory Provisions of England, Canada, the United States, and the States of the Union, Upon the Subject of Telegraphs

Whether the same extraordinary responsibility rests upon Telegraph Companies in relation to the transmis sion of messages, as is applied to common carriers in the carriage of goods, 18 a very' interesting, and, per haps, the most important, branch of Telegraph Law, and about which there is the greatest diversity of opinion.

We have adopted the following order of arrange ment: Part I. Relates to things common to Telegraph Companies and other corporations; and Part II. To things peculiar to Telegraph Companies.

It is believed that we have referred to all the cases reported upon this subject which possess any interest, and the important points they contain have been exhibited, either in the text or in the notes.

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