Brief reviewing the constitutionality of an act entitled "An act to prevent discrimination by telephone companies."
Subtitle: Referred to the Judiciary committee of the Massachusetts Senate of 1885
By: Submitted for the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph co. by Parker C. Chandler, of counsel
Published: 1885
Place of publication: Boston?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Notes: "This brief was prepared to define the legal status which telegraph and telephone companies hold to the state, legislature and public ... having in view the constitutionality of the act now before the Massachusetts legislature ... and ... the claim that the act is unconstitutional, because it impairs the obligations of a contract made in 1879 by the National Bell telephone company (in 1880 assigned to the American Bell telephone company) with the Western union telegraph company."--p. 7.