Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Willis
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Willis, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the telegraph company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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From the circuit court of, first district, Hinds county. Hon. Wiley H. Potter, Judge. Willis, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the telegraph company, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Even if defendant were negligent in its failure to deliver the message in question promptly, plaintiff suffered no loss thereby; whatever loss he did suffer, was caused by his own act in releasing Morrow from a perfectly valid contract. This question was raised on the…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
Floyd Willis was engaged in buying and selling cotton in the city of Jackson, Miss. On the 5th day of December, 1906, he sent a telegram to Knight, Yancey & Co., of Mobile, Ala., sub*550mitting to them an offer to sell certain cotton which he then owned. The message was duly transmitted by the telegraph-company to Mobile and duly delivered. On receipt of tbe telegram Knight, Yancey & Co. wired Willis, accepting the offer. This message of acceptance by them was duly delivered to the telegraph company at Mobile, and by it sent to Willis, at Jackson, and received at tbe Jackson office at 1:05 p. m.…
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