Usher v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Barton Circuit Court. — Hon. L. W. Shafer, Judge. (1) Even if it were possible for a bill of exceptions to prove itself, the pretended bill in this case actually impeaches itself.
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Appeal from Barton Circuit Court. — Hon. L. W. Shafer, Judge. (1) Even if it were possible for a bill of exceptions to prove itself, the pretended bill in this case actually impeaches itself. On page 63 of appellant’s abstract the court will notice that the bill recites that on March 9, Judge L. W. Shafer extended time for filing the bill to May 10, 1906; on page 64 it is recited that Judge Shafer departed this life May 9, 1906, and that on May 10, 1906, the bar elected S. N. VanPool special judge, and that said pretended special judge, on May 10, 1906, made an order extending time to the…
1Opinion of the CourtEllison, J.
Plaintiff, claiming to have suffered pecuniary loss through the misfeasance of defendant’s agent, brought this action for damages and recovered judgment in the trial court.
The city of Parsons, Kansas, and the village of Min-den, Missouri, are about sixty miles apart. In each of them the defendant has telegraph operators who receive and transmit messages. In the former place it has what may be called a regular office and operator and it also has an equipment at the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad station into which what is known as the railroad wire enters; the latter being used mostly…
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