A person owning, hiring, or leasing a telephone shall have the right to transmit by telephone to any telegraph company using a telephone, a message to be forwarded by telegraph, and also the right to receive from such telegraph company over such telephone wires, messages received by telegraph for such individual.
Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 30, § 2706
Transmission of telephone messages
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