Baker v. Western Union Tel. Co.

November 14, 1923. The opinion of the Court was delivered by The appellant states its case as follows:

"This action was brought to recover damages, actual and punitive, on account of the alleged negligent and willful failure to transmit and deliver a money transfer in the sum of $10 filed with the defendant at its Barnwell, S.C. office on the 28th day of December, 1921, by C.F. Baker, Jr., to be transmitted to Mrs. C. Baker, the respondent herein, at Atlanta, in the state of Georgia.

"The answer of the defendant was, first, a general denial; second, that the money transfer in suit was…