Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hughes
Supreme Court of Virginia
• Error tó a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Danville in' an action of debt. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1DissentCaed well, J.
I am unable to concur in the opinion of the court in this case. The case, upon the agreed state of facts, is, as the opinion states, in all essential features the same as that of W. U. Tel. Co. v. Reynolds, 100 Va. 469, 41 S. E. 856, 93 Am. St. 971, decided June 19, 1902. In each case the action was to recover against the defendant the penalty of one hundred dollars, imposed by sections 1291 and 1292 of the Code of Ya. for the failure to transmit and deliver dispatches in the manner and time set forth in those sections. In the former case the message was received by the telegraph company at…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Gibbons v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- Telegraph Co. v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. JamesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Hanley v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. PendletonSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
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