Germain Fruit Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

This action is for damages occasioned by alleged negligence in the transmission of a telegraph message. Judgment was for the defendant, and plaintiff appeals, from the judgment and from an order refusing a new trial.,

The plaintiff is a wholesale dealer in fruits, and engaged, in buying and selling fruits and in shipping from Southern California to various points East. On the 18th of February, 1887, plaintiff received a dispatch from Cornforth & Co., fruit merchants at Denver, Colorado, asking for prices of oranges. In response plaintiff sent the following dispatch to Cornforth & Co.: "Offer…