Case Name: Rathbun v. United States
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1957-01-14
Citations: 352 U.S. 965
Docket Number: No. 538
Parties: Rathbun v. United States.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 352
Pages: 965–965

Head Matter:
No. 538.
Rathbun v. United States.
E. F. Conly for petitioner. Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Olney, Beatrice Rosenberg and Felicia Dubrovsky for the United States.

Opinion:
Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit granted, limited to question 1 presented by the petition for the writ which reads as follows:
"1. Is the listening in of third parties on an extension telephone in an adjoining room, without consent of the sender, an interception of a telephone message, and the divulgence of the contents of such conversation prohibited by statute, to wit Sec. 605, Title 47, U. S. C. A."