Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Harding

This suit was brought by Charles N. Harding against the Western Union Telegraph Company to recover the statutory penalty for negligently failing to transmit a message received by it from the plaintiff.

The complaint charges that the message was delivered to the defendant’s agent, at its office in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on the 27th day of September, 1884, during usual office hours, to be transmitted to Covington, Indiana, and that payment for transmission had been made according to the regulations of the company. The message set out is of the tenor following :

“To C. M. McCabe, Covington, Ind.

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