Salinger v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Carroll District Court. — Hon. Z. A. Church, Judge. Action to recover damages resulting from the negligence of defendant in failing to transmit and deliver a telegram addressed to plaintiff. Verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $95, from which defendant appeals; the judge or court granting a certificate of appeal on defendants’ request.
1Per curiam
Plaintiff alleges that on the 9 th of February, 1903, he sent a message by defendant’s line from Milwaukee to one Korte, at Carroll, Iowa, which was also plaintiff’s place of residence, in this language, “Wire quick how soon I must be home,” and in response to this message Korte delivered to the defendant company for transmission to plaintiff, at Milwaukee, a telegram, advising him that he need not be at home in Carroll until noon of Wednesday, February 11, 1903; that the said message was, through the negligence of defendant, either never transmitted at all, or not delivered to plaintiff at…
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