Legal Opinion
Baker v. Western Union Tel. Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided January 2, 1922No. 8174Published
1Opinion of the Court
*262GEORGE BAKER, Appellant yg V®STERN UNION' TEL. CO.
No. 8174:.
CHARLES F. CLAIBORNE, JUD®.
This is a suit by an addressee for failure of the Telegraph, Company to deliver a telegram to him.
The plaintiff alleges that a telegram was sent from the office of the defendant Company at Biloxi, Mississippi, addressed to him at his home in the City of New Orleans, in the following words:
"Mother very si ok, oome at once";
that said telegram was not delivered to his home; that he was informed only on the next day by telephone of his mother's illness; that he left the City by the first possible train, but…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. SolanSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Southern Express Co. v. ByersSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. PendletonSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Commercial Milling Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1910
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