Green v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

This is a suit of attachment and garnishment brought by the appellant, R. IT. Green, to recover eighty-seven dollars and thirty-four cents due by Jacob Farrar to appellant, and the Western Union Telegraph Company-was summoned as garnishee, and judgment asked against the telegraph company, who held funds telegraphed by a Mrs. Claude Sterling of Watertown, F. Y., to the said Jacob Farrar at Jackson, Miss. The funds so telegraphed were not paid to Jacob Farrar during the seventy-two hours provided for in the contract between the sender and the telegraph company, but the funds were returned,…