Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hall
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCÜIT COURT OF THE UNITED - STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA. The case as stated by the court was as follows: This was an action at law brought in the Circuit Court of Polk County, Iowa, by George F. Hall against the Western Union Telegraph Company, and by the defendant‘removed, .on the ground of citizenship, to the Circuit Court of the United-States for the Southern District of Iowa.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCÜIT COURT OF THE UNITED - STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA. The case as stated by the court was as follows: This was an action at law brought in the Circuit Court of Polk County, Iowa, by George F. Hall against the Western Union Telegraph Company, and by the defendant‘removed, .on the ground of citizenship, to the Circuit Court of the United-States for the Southern District of Iowa. The action was for the recovery of damages for alleged negligence on the part of the defendant, in delaying the delivery of a telegraphic message received by it from the plaintiff at. Des…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
The view we take of this case requires us, in answer to the fourth question certified, to say that, in the circumstances disclosed by the record, the plaintiff was entitled only to recover nominal damages, and not the difference in value of the oil if it had been purchased on the day when the message ought to have been delivered and the market price to which it had risen on the next day. As the judgment was rendered in his favor for the latter sum, it must be reversed on that account, and, upon the facts found by the court, judgment rendered for nominal damages only, which finally disposes of…
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