Alexander v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Oktibbeha county. Hon. Logic E. Houston, Judge. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. 1. It was not necessary that the authorization of Carothers, the agent, should be in writing. See Tenn. statute of frauds, code of Tenn., 1884, § 2423 and note.
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From the circuit court of Oktibbeha county. Hon. Logic E. Houston, Judge. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. 1. It was not necessary that the authorization of Carothers, the agent, should be in writing. See Tenn. statute of frauds, code of Tenn., 1884, § 2423 and note. Under the statute of this state, which was identical with that of Tennessee prior to the code of 1857, it was held that it was not necessary that the authority of an agent to make a valid contract for the sale of land should be in writing. Cwrtis v. Blair, 26 Miss. 309. But it is immaterial whether Carothers had…
1Opinion of the CourtArnold, C. J.
These facts are stated substantially, both in the original and the amended declaration — appellee, as a corporation duly chartered, was engaged in the business of receiving and transmitting for hire, telegraphic messages for the public — that its lines extended from Starkville, Miss., to Chattanooga, Tenn. — that appellants desired to purchase a certain lot of land in the latter place, and were informed on the 3d of December, 1886, by letter, from the agent of the owner of the lot, that it could be bought for three thousand dollars, and that if they wanted it at that price, to inform him by…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. PendletonSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Daughtery v. American Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1883
- Rittenhouse v. . Independent Line of TelegraphNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
- Parks v. Alta Cal. Tel. Co.California Supreme Court · 1859
- True v. International Telegraph Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1872
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- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. WilsonSupreme Court of Florida · 1893
- Gardner v. Postal Telegraph & Cable Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1916
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. SightsSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1912
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Adams Machine Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1908
- Hughes v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1899
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