Redington v. Pac. Postal Tel. Cable Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Searls, C.
This is an action to recover damages for the failure of the defendant (a telegraph company) to correctly transmit an unrepeated telegraph message.
*320Plaintiff had judgment for $555 and costs, from which judgment and from an order denying its motion for a new trial defendant appeals.
The case is this:
The defendant is a telegraph company, engaged in transmitting and receiving messages for. hire by telegraph over its lines, one of which extends from San Francisco to Visalia, in the county of Tulare, State of California.
On the twenty-eighth day of March, 1890, plaintiff caused a message to…
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