Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bowman
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tlie City Court of Mobile. Tried, before tlie Hon. O. J. Semmes. This action was brought by tilie appellee, Robert H. Bowman, against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Tlie complaint, as originally filed, contained three counts.
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Appeal from tlie City Court of Mobile. Tried, before tlie Hon. O. J. Semmes. This action was brought by tilie appellee, Robert H. Bowman, against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Tlie complaint, as originally filed, contained three counts. The 1st count was in words and figures as follows: “1. The plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of one thousand dollars as damages for that, heretofore, to-wit, on the 21st day of May, 1901, the defendant, a corporation, was operating a public telegraph system, engaged, in the business of transmitting messages for hire, by means of electricity from…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
It was admitted on the trial, that the house of the plaintiff at Whistler, the place to which the message to plaintiff was sent, was beyond the free delivery limit, — the same: being over a half mile from the telegraph office.
There were three counts in the complaint, each in case, to recover damages for- the failure to deliver a telegraph message, sent by the son and agent of the plaintiff to the latter from Montgomery to Whistler, Alabama,
*191The first count avers, that on account of defendant’s negligence in not delivering the message, the plaintiff lost a valuable situation which was vacant…
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