Coit v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Plaintiffs telegraphed to W. B. Dennis, at St. Louis, asking him to telegraph them the lowest cash price for two hundred and twenty tons of forty-pound steel rails. The message was correctly delivered, and in answer thereto Dennis telegraphed to plaintiffs the price to be thirty-seven dollars per ton. This dispatch was delivered in due time, but when delivered it read twenty-seven dollars per ton, the mistake in the message having occurred in transit by reason of atmospheric disturbances. Belying upon the words of the mesr sage as delivered, plaintiffs entered into contracts to buy and sell…