Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Ivy
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Action by C. M. Ivy against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH McPHERSON, District Judge.
C. M. Ivy brought Jhis action to recover damages for the failure to deliver a telegram' received by the company for transmission. In August, 1907, his son, Leo Ivy, 15 years of age, suddenly died on the streets of Terre Haute, Ind., where-the son was a stranger. The body was at once taken to the undertaking rooms of E. V. Sinclair of Terre Haute. By reason of a letter on the body, notice was given by the undertaker to a friend of the boy in Memphis, Tenn. This friend conveyed the information as to the death by telephone from Memphis to Hot Springs, Ark., where…
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- Angle v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Globe Refining Co. v. Landa Cotton Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Primrose v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Mexican Central Railway Co. v. PinkneySupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Warren v. StoddartSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
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