Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hamilton

The appellee sued the appellant to recover the penalty of one hundred dollars provided for in the first section of the act “ to regulate electric telegraph companies,”' 1 G. & H. 611.

The complaint was originally in two paragraphs; the first, counting on the penalty, the second on special damages. But. the second paragraph was subsequently withdrawn, and the case proceeded on the issues formed on the first.

The first paragraph charges, in substance, that the defendant on March 31st, 1870, was an electric telegraph company, duly organized as a corporation, and engaged, under the laws of Indiana,…