Case ID: njl_90/html/0729-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY, APPELLANT, v. BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONERS ET AL., RESPONDENTS.
    Argued January 4, 1917
    Decided October 11, 1917.
    On appeal from the Supreme Court, in which the following per curiam was filed:
    “In this case there are eleven reasons presented to the court for setting aside the order made by the board of public utility commissioners. They are in the main identical with the reasons presented by the prosecutor, the Passaic Water Company, except an additional reason, .viz., the order is invalid, because it imposes a burden upon the interstate traffic of the prosecutor, interferes with and impairs, its ability to perform its duty as a common carrier of such traffic.
    “They are. however, argued under five points in prosecutor’s brief. The first four points are constitutional questions, all of which are disposed of in the opinion of the court in the case of Erie Railroad Co. v. Board of Public Utility Commissioners. ■
    “The fifth point is, the order is invalid, stating six reasons; there, also, have Leen disposed of in the opinion of the court in. the case of Erie Railroad Co. v. Board of Public Utility Commissioners. They need no further discussion.
    “The order under review will be affirmed, with costs.”
    For the appellant, Collins & Corbin.
    
    For the respondents, L. Edward Herrmann and Frank H. Sommer.
    
   Per Curiam.

The judgment under review will be affirmed, for the reasons sel forth in the opinion of the Supreme Court.

For affirmance—The Chancellor, Minturn, Kalisch, White, Williams, Taylor, Gardner, JJ. 7.

'' For reversal—The Chief Justice, Savayze, Parker, Bergen, Heppenheimer, JJ. 5.