Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Griffin

This is an action by Gertrude Griffin, in which her husband O. H. Griffin joins, brought against the Western Union Telegraph Company to recover damages she alleges she sustained by reason of the failure of the defendant to correctly transmit and deliver to her a telegram.

On August 31, 1930, the plaintiff caused the county superintendent of schools of Bates county, at Butler, Missouri, where she lived, to wire the state superintendent of public instruction of Arizona at Phoenix asking if “30 college hours and grade in Arizona History and Physics” would qualify applicant for Arizona certificate…