Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Collins
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Atchison District Cov/rt. The facts are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
StjraNG, C.:
Action for damages for failing to deliver a certain telegraphic message. The facts are as follows:
The plaintiff in error was a telegraph company, doing business between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sabetha, Kansas. The defendants in error were partners, doing business at the latter place, and engaged in shipping hogs. They had purchased of the farmers in the neighborhood of Sabetha a lot of hogs, which they designed shipping to market, either at St. Joseph or Kansas City. The hogs were to be delivered at Sabetha, by the farmers, on the 12th of January, 1885. Prior to that…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Bell v. MorrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1828
- State v. BaldwinSupreme Court of Kansas · 1886
- United States v. SmithU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut · 1809
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- Parsons v. HuffSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1854
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