Lott v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

(dissenting) : These two actions were tried together in the Circuit Court, and the appeals were likewise heard in this'Court. They grow out of the following facts: The plaintiff, J. H. Lott and his wife, lived in Bamberg; some time prior to April, 1921, he, being cut of work at Bamberg, went to Columbia and found employment there in one of the cotton mills. On April 1, 1921, he made an effort to send some money to his wife, a part of which he expected her to use in coming to him in Columbia; he made application to the Telegraph Company to transmit $7.00 by wire to her at Bamberg, paying the…