Nye v. Western Union Tel. Co.

LOCHREN, District Judge.

The petition of the defendant for an order setting aside the verdict and judgment in this action and granting a new trial was duly brought on for hearing on August *62931, 1900, in the March, 1900, term of this court, and both parties appeared by their respective counsel. The action is to recover damages alleged to hare been sustained by the plaintiff by the publication incident to the transmission over defendant’s telegraph from New York to Minneapolis on the night of July 27, 1899, of two telegrams, below quoted, and the delivery of each to the person to whom it was…