Leigh v. . Telegraph Co.

Action to recover damages, alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff, resulting from negligence of defendant in the transmission and delivery of a telegram. On 1 September, 1922, plaintiff delivered to defendant, at Hamlet, N.C. for transmission to the sendee, a telegram addressed to Hubbard Brothers Company, New York, and signed by plaintiff, reading as follows:

"If Government report fifty-six or under buy two hundred bales December one thousand dollars deposited Page Trust Company, Hamlet, N. Car., your credit. Answer."

On same day, a telegram addressed and signed as above was delivered by…