Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Norman
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Forest County. Hon. Kobt. S. Hall, Judge. Suit by M L. Norman against the Western Union Telegraph Company v. Hawkins, 73 So. 873, of the defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. 1. In answer to the first question we have to say that this court is bound by the interpretation placed by the supreme court of Alabama in the case of the Telegraph Company y.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Forest County. Hon. Kobt. S. Hall, Judge. Suit by M L. Norman against the Western Union Telegraph Company v. Hawkins, 73 So. 873, of the defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. 1. In answer to the first question we have to say that this court is bound by the interpretation placed by the supreme court of Alabama in the case of the Telegraph Company y. Hawkins, 73 So. 873, of the Acts of Congress of July 18, 1910, unless this court is prepared to say that the Hawkins case is not the law of the state of Alabama as applied to…
1Opinion of the CourtSykes, J.
The appellee instituted suit' in the circuit court of Forrest county against the appellant for the sum of thirty-five dollars as actual damages and one thousand, five hundred dollars punitive damages for the alleged negligent failure to properly transmit and promptly deliver a telegram sent by appellee from Akron, Ala., to his wife in Hattiesburg, Miss., which reads as follows:
“Akron, Alabama, July 29th, 1916.
“Mrs. M. L. Norman, West Pine Street, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Do not catch train for Tuscaloosa.
[Signed] M. L. Norman.”
In the transmission of the message the agents of the appellant…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. PrenticeSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Primrose v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Southern Express Co. v. ByersSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Dickerson v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1917
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. ShowersMississippi Supreme Court · 1916
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- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. WallaceMississippi Supreme Court · 1933