Western Union Telegraph Co. v. McKibben

This suit was commenced by appellee, Mc-Kibben, against the appellant, on the 11th day of April, 1885, in the Bartholomew Circuit Court. The object of the suit was to recover certain special damages, which appellee averred that he had sustained by and' through the alleged negligence of appellant, its operators and servants, in failing to deliver a certain telegraphic dispatch or message. After the cause was put at issue, on appellant’s application, the venue thereof was changed to the court below. There, the issues joined were tried by a jury, and a general verdict was returned for appellee,…