Birkett v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Defendant has a telegraph office at Hand' station, on the Wabash Railroad, 13 miles from Detroit, and also at Dearborn, on the Michigan Central. The-distance between them is between three and four miles. At both places the office is one with that of the railway-company, and the operators are those employed by these-companies. Defendant has an arrangement with the companies, by which their operators at these stations do all, its business. It has no contract with the operators, and no control over them. The entire receipts of the defendant at Hand are about $3.50, and at Dearborn about $4, per…