Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Lathrop

This was an action by the appellees against the appellants for damages sustained in consequence of errors in the transmission of dispatches from appellees, in Chicago, to their agents in New York.

The course of business was that the appellees instructed, by telegraph, their agents in New York to buy or sell, for future delivery, coffee, which orders the agents executed by making in their own names, on the coffee exchange in New York, such contracts as the orders required. The agents gave the appellees no information as to the parties with whom the contracts were made, nor were such parties…