Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-03
TELEGRAPHIC DECISIONS.

Bucket shops Illegal and Immoral and the
Telegraph Company Not Compelled 10
Furnish Market QuOtations--The CUES
ton of Courtesy Between Rival Compan-
les.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-The case of Nohe
against the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany and board OF trade was decided by
Judge Moran of the circuit court to-day.
Nohe is the proprietor of bucket shop,
and filed his bill to enjoin the telegraph
company from removing the tickers from
his establishment and from Withholding
market quotations as they exist on the
board of trade. He also sought to enjoin
the board of trade from
enforcing its rule against furnishing in
formation and quotations to such estab-
Iishments. The injunction was granted
without notice on the filing of the bill,
and the motion for the dissolution of the
injunction was argued last week, and the
court gave an elaborate opinion sustaining
the right of the Telegraph company to
withhold the market quotations upon
grounds of the immortality and illegality
Of the business in which complainant was
engaged. He held that the statute of the
state against gambling in grain was appli-
cable, and also that the bust
ness was demoraIzing and pernicious,
and a court of equity would refuse its aid
to any one who came with unclean hands
asking assistance to prosecute business
against the public policy of the state.
He accordingly dissolved the injunction.
This YVES test case, the attorneys Of all
the bucket shops taking part in the ar
guments.
Judge Moran also decided the case Of
the Mutual Union against the Western
Union to receive dispatches col
lected by the Mutual Union from
It's patrons, directed to points which its
lines do not reach, but which are reached
by the Western Union. 1t alleged that it
had established q system of call bells by
which its patrons were induced to send
to it all their Geographic business, and
that il desired to send by the Western
Union lines such as it could not itself
transmit. The Western Union refused to
receive the dispatches collected in this
way, and claimed it was for the interest
both of itself and its patrons that
messages to be sent over its lines should
be collected by itself and not come through
the hands of a hostile telegraph company.
Complaint was also made that the Western
Union refused to take from the Mutual
Union night messages at regularly reduced
rates; also that the Mutual Union charged
for three or more extra words, in case of a
message originating at Mutual Union
office and transferred at intermediate
points to the Western Union for transmits
sion at points where the Mutual Union had
no offices. The court held that the charge
for extra words was a reasonable and prop
er requirement, and refused to issue any
injunction to change the course of bust
ness in that respect. The court was also
OF the opinion that the Western Union was
under no obligations to receive night dis
patches at reduced rates when transferred
from the Mutual Union lines. The court
also decided that the senders of telegraph
messages had a right to employ the boys
of the Mutual Union company in sending
messages from their own Office to the
Western Union, but that the Western
Union company is not obliged to receive
such messages written on the blanks of the
Mutual Union company. The order will
be settled hereafter.