Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Crall
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Atchison District Court. Action by Crcdl against the Telegraph Company, to recover damages claimed by reason of the negligence of the defendant in the transmission of a certain message sent from Atchison to Eureka, Kansas, on September 19, 1883. Trial by the eourt at the February Term, 1886, and judgment for the plaintiff for $ 136.10. The defendant company brings the case here. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Holt, C.:
On September 19, 1883, Jesse C. Crall, the defendant in error, by his son and agent Graham Crall, delivered to the defendant company, at Atchison, Kansas, the following message, leaving out printed matter, etc.:
“To J. B. Smith, Esq., Eureka, Kansas: Ship Bones, sulky and trap to Valley Falls immediately.
Graham Crall.”
The message received by Smith on the same day, at Eureka, omitting printed matter, etc., was as follows:
“To J. B. Smith: Ship Beons, sulky and traps to Neosha Falls immediately. Graham Crolt.”
*680“Bones” was the name of a trotting horse owned by Crall, and at that…
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- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. CarewMichigan Supreme Court · 1867
- Sweatland v. Ill. & Miss. Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1869
- Rittenhouse v. . Independent Line of TelegraphNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
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