Blasi v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

This is a controversy submitted on an agreed statement of facts. Mun. Ct. Code, § 124. The question presented is whether defendant is liable for the loss of a lady’s coat that was intrusted to a messenger boy for delivery.

From the agreed statement of facts it appears that the defendant is a New York corporation authorized under its charter to construct, maintain and operate telegraph lines and transmit intelligence over them; that the defendant maintains a messenger service in the city of New York and employs boys in connection therewith who are furnished to the general public on request for…