Clay v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Telegraph companies. Non-delivery. Damages. Profits. Demurrer. Before Judge Jenkins. Bibb superior court. November term, 1887. J. J. Clay sued the Western Union Telegraph Company, alleging as follows : Said company, being a body corporate and politic and doing business in this State, and engaged in receiving and transmitting messages on its wires for prdfit, and having an office in the city of Macon, had damaged him $500.00; for that, on January 8th, 1885, at about five…
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Telegraph companies. Non-delivery. Damages. Profits. Demurrer. Before Judge Jenkins. Bibb superior court. November term, 1887. J. J. Clay sued the Western Union Telegraph Company, alleging as follows : Said company, being a body corporate and politic and doing business in this State, and engaged in receiving and transmitting messages on its wires for prdfit, and having an office in the city of Macon, had damaged him $500.00; for that, on January 8th, 1885, at about five o’clock p. m., at Bullard’s Station,^about seventeen miles from Macon, on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad,…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
It appears that a telegram was sent to Clay, the plaintiff, as follows:
*287“ Bullard’s, Ga., Jany. 8th, 1885.
“ To J. J. Clay : Meet us at E. T. depot on this evening’s train prepared to arrange for shipment to Indianapolis my mother-in-law’s rereinains. (Signed) D. G. Hughes.”
The telegraph company failed to deliver this telegram in time for Clay to meet the train and comply with the directions of the sender. Clay brought his action against the company for damages.
"We cannot see, from the allegations in the declaration, how Clay was damaged. It does not appear that he suffered…
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