Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Esteve Bros. & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Eouisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Action at law by Esteve Bros. & Co., against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by the defendants in error (herein referred to as the plaintiffs) against the plaintiff in error, the Western Union Telegraph Company (herein referred to as the defendant), for the alleged amount of the loss or damage occasioned to the former by the latter’s negligent failure to transmit correctly a cable message addressed and sent on September 13, 1917, to the plaintiffs at New Orleans, La., by its representative at Barcelona, Spain, where the plaintiffs have their main office. The body of the message as sent read:
“Sell two hundred bales futures,…
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