Pacific Telegraph Co. v. Underwood

. Ragan, C.

John I. Underwood sued the Pacific Telegraph Company in the district court of Lancaster county. The facts involved in the case are substantially: Underwood Jived in Lincoln, Nebraska. ' lie had some household goods in Richmond, Indiana. He desired these shipped to Lincoln, and wrote to one Lawrence at Richmond, asking the rate on goods. Lawrence delivered to a telegraph company at Richmond the following dispatch :

“Richmond, Indiana, July 2, 1886.

■“ To John I Underwood, Lincoln, Nebraska: Rate seventy-six dollars per car; $1.09 per hundred, local.

“L. L. Lawrence.”

This telegram when…