Breese v. United States Telegraph Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the seventh judicial district, in favor of defendant, rendered in a case agreed upon and submitted for determination without action, under section 372 of the Code of Procedure. The facts and the opinion of the court thereon, are fully reported in 45 Barbour, 274, etc.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the seventh judicial district, in favor of defendant, rendered in a case agreed upon and submitted for determination without action, under section 372 of the Code of Procedure. The facts and the opinion of the court thereon, are fully reported in 45 Barbour, 274, etc. The facts material to the decision of this appeal are these: George W. Cuyler, the president of the First NationaBank of Palmyra, acting for and by authority of the plaintiffs, on the 16th of March, 1865, presented to the defendant, a corporation duly incorporated…
1Opinion of the Court
[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The questions involved on this appeal do not, as stated by the appellants' counsel, "take a wide range," but are, by the facts detailed in the case, reduced to a narrow compass. It is therein stated that the defendants are a corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, and engaged in the business of transmitting messages and dispatches by electric telegraph, for hire, over a line of telegraphic wires owned by them, at their office in…
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- Grinnell v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Smith v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1885
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