Dettis v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $520, damages caused by delay in transmission of a telegram.
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Action in the district court for St. Louis county to recover $520, damages caused by delay in transmission of a telegram. One defense set up in the answer was that the message in question was received and delivered subject to the terms of a certain written contract, one term of which was that defendant should not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery of messages or nondelivery of any unrepeated message, that the telegram in question was an unrepeated message, and another term of which was that defendant was not to be liable beyond the sum of $50. Another defense…
1Opinion of the Court
Lees, C.
Plaintiffs, as copartners under the name of Joplin Grain Company, operated an elevator at Joplin, Montana, where they bought wheat, basing the prices paid for it on the Duluth or Minneapolis market, where the wheat was sold for them on the board of trade through ■ grain brokers. Daily market quotations were furnished to them by the defendant by wire in the form of market letters known as C. N. D.’s. Martin H. Snippen was plaintiffs’ agent at Joplin. In buying grain, Snippen based the purchase price on defendant’s daily market letters which were delivered to him by L. R. Sherry, its…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Boston & Maine Railroad v. HookerSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Primrose v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Burck v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Gardner v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1916
- Francis v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Komatz Construction, Inc. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1971
- Rasher-Kingman-Herrin Co. v. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1919