Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Cook

Ryan, C.

In this case there was a verdict against, the Western Union Telegraph Company in compliance with an instruction that such a verdict should be found by the jury. To reverse the judgment rendered upon this verdict the telegraph company has prosecuted an error proceeding to this court.

In the petition filed in the district court plaintiff alleged that he was a real estate agent at St. Paul, in this state, on September 1, 1892; that there had been entrusted to him for sale by S. S. Smith certain lands in Howard county; that the price fixed on said lands by Smith, its owner, was $12,600;…