Western Union Tel. Co. v. Peter Neylon

This suit was brought by ap-pellees against appellant to recover damages occasioned by its failure to correctly transmit a telegram sent by them to their brokers at New Orleans, La., instructing them to sell certain cotton futures for their account. Ap-pellees, who are residents of Winchester, Tex., on July 26, 1911, believing that the cotton quotations for. January, 1912, delivery were too high, and acting upon information received from their brokers, concluded to sell 200 bales for January delivery, and about 1 o’clock of that day forwarded a telegram over appellant’s line to their brokers,…