Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Craig
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. HoN. IT. C. MouNger, Judge. Suit by the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company against W. C. Craig & Company. Prom a judgment for plaintiff after allowing defendant’s claim, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county. HoN. IT. C. MouNger, Judge. Suit by the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company against W. C. Craig & Company. Prom a judgment for plaintiff after allowing defendant’s claim, plaintiff appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. It may be well to call the court’s attention to the stipulation on the back of the message as follows: “No responsibility regarding messages attaches to the company until the same are juesented and accepted at one of its transmitting offices; and if a message is sent to such office by one of this company’s…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.
W. C. Craig & Company were engag’ed in the cotton business at Vicksburg, Mississippi, with correspondents in New York City. The telegraph company had an office in Vicksburg and one in New York, and was eng’ag'ed in the business of transmitting messages for hire from Vicksburg to New York, and throughout the entire country. Craig & Company ran an open account with the telegraph company. The course of business between the parties to this suit, in this regard, as shown by the record, was that Craig ■& Company would send a message to be transmitted, and the telegraph company would receive and…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Adams Machine Co. v. ThomasMississippi Supreme Court · 1905
- King v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1905
- Wilkinson v. SearlesMississippi Supreme Court · 1892