Hansen v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.

The plaintiff testified without objection from the defendant that while she was waiting at Port Hope she wrote a telegram to her sister in Berlin in the Norwegian language and at the request of the operator she translated it into English as follows: “The Grand Trunk conductor has put me on a wrong train. ” As the original telegram was not produced (and according to the defendant’s evidence it had been destroyed) one of the plaintiff’s witnesses subsequently produced the telegram received by her sister in Berlin, and, subject to the defendant’s exception, it was admitted in evidence. It…