McCollum v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Mu. Chief Justice GkeeN

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit for damages for failure promptly to transmit a money order telegram for $450' from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Winchester, Virginia. The suit was instituted before a justice of the peace who rendered judgment in favor of plaintiff for $275. On appeal the circuit court reduced this judgment to olie for $3.15, which sum had been tendered by the defendant. On appeal to the Court of Appeals that court held plaintiff entitled to some other small items of damage on the record before it, together with attorney’s fee, reversed…