Halsted v. Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in tl;e office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 24th day of April, 1906, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 20th day of April, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiffs in this action'were engaged in manufacturing beef cotton bags. They wrote a letter to the Cannon Manufacturing Company at Concord, N. C., asking for prices upon a line of cot*434ton goods by telegraph. The Cannon Manufacturing Company, in response to this request, delivered a message to the defendant to be forwarded to the plaintiffs in the city of New- York, which message was in words and figures as follows: “ Concord, N. C., July 27th, 1903’. E. S. Halsted & Co., 75 Pearl St., New York, N. Y. Deliveries commencing about August fifteenth. Light narrow two eighty wide…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Pearsall v. Western Union Telegraph Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1891
- Clement v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
3Cited by6 opinions
- Gardner v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1916
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bank of SpencerSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1916
- Addoms v. WeirAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1907
- Bates v. WeirAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
- Sims v. Western Union Telegraph Co.New York Supreme Court · 1963
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