telegraph company

telegraph company
A company, almost invariably a corporation, engaged in the business of sending communications by telegram and furnishing services allied to such communication business. A company exercising a quasi public employment, chartered for public purposes, clothed with the power of eminent domain, bound to serve the people impartially, carefully and in good faith and in several of the states of the Union held to be a common carrier and subject to liability as such. Strong v Western Union Tel. Co. 18 Idaho 389, 109 P 910.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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