Western Union Tel. Co. v. Tyler
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court, of Alleghany county, rendered March 29, 1892, in an action of debt for a penalty, wherein J. O. Tyler was plaintiff and the Western Union Telegraph Company was defendant. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, to which judgment the defendant company obtained a writ of error from one of the judges of this court.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action against the Western Union Telegraph Company, to recover a statutory penalty of one hundred dollars for the failure of the company to deliver as promptly as *298practicable a certain dispatch sent from Ashville, North Carolina, to the plaintiff, at Clifton Forge in this State. Section 1292 of the Code, under which the action was brought, reads as follows:
“ It shall be the duty of every telegraph or telephone company, upon the arrival of á dispatch at the point to which it is to be transmitted by said company, to deliver it promptly to…
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