New Jersey Statutes 48:17-21. Injuring or obstructing telegraph or telephone lines; punishment
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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 48:17-21
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
Any person who shall willfully and unlawfully injure, destroy or obstruct the use of any telegraph or telephone line constructed by virtue of this chapter, shall, for the first offense, pay to such company the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered as debts of like amount are by law recoverable, and be liable for all damages, and shall for the second offense, be liable to imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year.