Western Union Telegraph Co. v. McGuire

The complaint seeks a recovery of the stat*131utory penalty for a failure to transmit a telegraphic message. The answer of the appellant is substantially as follows: “ The defendant says that it did fail and refuse to transmit the message set forth in the complaint, but defendant says that the plaintiff was a stranger in Frankfort and a transient person therein; that the said message was one that required an answer ; that the defendant has, and had at the time, as one of its general rules and regulations of business, regularly adopted for the government of the operators and agents of said…