United States Telegraph Co. v. Gildersleve
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This action was brought by the appellee to recover damages for the failure of the appellant to transmit a dispatch ordering a ■•sale of gold. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This action was brought by the appellee to recover damages for the failure of the appellant to transmit a dispatch ordering a ■•sale of gold. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. First Exception. — On the evidence, the plaintiff prayed the court to instruct.the jury, — That if they believe from the evidence in the cause, that the defendant was on the 9th of March, 1865, engaged in the business of telegraphing messages from the City of Baltimore, to the City of New York, and from the City of New York to the City of…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
This was an action, ex contractu, instituted by the appellee against the appellant, to recover of the latter damages resulting from its failure to transmit and deliver a telegraphic dispatch to certain stock brokers in New York.
The dispatch directed to be transmitted was'as follows:
“No. 15. Broker’s Telegram Line, 4.
People’s Telegraph Lines,
No. 23 South street, and Barnum’s City Hotel, Balt.
Send the following message, without repeating it, subject to the conditions endorsed on the back.
Dated Baltimore, March 9, 1865.
To Dibble & Cambloss, N. Y.
Sell fifty (50) gold. Words 3, col. 70.
Geo.…
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