Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Georgia
Justices’ courts. Jurisdiction. Constitutional law. Telegraph companies. Judgments. Nullities. Accord and satisfaction. Actions. Charge- of court. Yerdict. Before Judge Harris. City court of Macon. December term, 1888. The telegraphic message involved was dated at Macon, Georgia, November 9th, 1887 ; directed to Mrs. Frances M. Taylor, care of Charles Taylor, Brunswick, Georgia; signed M. G. Bayne; and stated: “ Case postponed. Don’t come until you hear from me.”
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Justices’ courts. Jurisdiction. Constitutional law. Telegraph companies. Judgments. Nullities. Accord and satisfaction. Actions. Charge- of court. Yerdict. Before Judge Harris. City court of Macon. December term, 1888. The telegraphic message involved was dated at Macon, Georgia, November 9th, 1887 ; directed to Mrs. Frances M. Taylor, care of Charles Taylor, Brunswick, Georgia; signed M. G. Bayne; and stated: “ Case postponed. Don’t come until you hear from me.” The plaintiff resided in Brunswick on the corner of Wolf and G 'streets, number 327, about five hundred yards from the telegraph…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The action was by Mrs. Taylor against the telegraph company, to recover a penalty of one hundred dollars for failure to deliver to her a telegram sent from Macon to Brunswick by Bayne and addressed to her. It was founded on the act of 1887 (pamph. p. 111), which reads as follows : “ Every electric telegraph company with a line of wires wholly or partly in this State, and engaged in telegraphing for the' public, shall, during the usual office hours, receive dispatches, whether from other tel*411egraphic lines or from individuals; and on payment or tender of the usual…
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