Stamey v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Eve. City court of Richmond county. August term, 1893. The declaration was dismissed on general demurrer.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
The declaration in this case claims damages for the non-transmission and non-delivery of a telegram which it is alleged Gooding & Co., of Charleston, S. C., had written on one of the defendant’s day telegraphic blanks and handed to a messenger of the defendant, who had just delivered a telegram to them from the plaintiff,' to be carried to the office of the defendant in Charleston for transmission to the plaintiff, at the latter’s expense, but which message was never in fact delivered by the messenger at the transmitting office of the defendant in Charleston.
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2Cases cited10 opinions
- Insurance Co. v. WilkinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- Tilley v. County of CookSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Grinnell v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Moran v. PratherSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Blanchard, Williams & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1882
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- Young v. Western Union Tel. Co.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1903
- Weems v. Albert Pick & Co.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1925
- Penn Mutual Life Insurance v. BlountCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1925
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Waxelbaum & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1901
- Mays v. Hankinson & HaglerCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1923
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