True v. International Telegraph Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On facts agreed in the superior court for this county. On January 12, 1870, the plaintiffs received a telegram, at Portland, from Messrs. Radeliff & P itterson, of Baltimore, offering to sell them a cargo of corn, at ninety cents per bushel.
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On facts agreed in the superior court for this county. On January 12, 1870, the plaintiffs received a telegram, at Portland, from Messrs. Radeliff & P itterson, of Baltimore, offering to sell them a cargo of corn, at ninety cents per bushel. Thereupon one of the plaintiffs went to the office of the defendants, in Portland, and, calling for one of the defendants’ ‘ night-message blanks,’ wrote thereon, the tenor of which, with that of the blank on which it was written, was as follows : ‘ NIGHT-MESSAGE BLANKS. Office managers will not receive “ night messages ” unless written hereunder, and…
1Opinion of the CourtKent, J.
On the 12th of January, 1870, the plaintiffs received a telegram from a firm in Baltimore, offering to sell them a cargo of corn at ninety cents per bushel. Whereupon one of the plaintiffs went to the office of the defendants and asked for one of the 'night message blanks,’ and wrote thereon the following telegram, addressed to the said firm, and paid forty-eight cents, the sum demanded. ‘ To Radcliff & Patterson, Baltimore; — Ship cargo named at ninety; if you can secure freight at ten, wire us result. Geo. W. True & Co.’
It is admitted that the telegram was never delivered to Radcliff &…
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