Given v. Western Union Tel. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Iowa
Tort for a Failure to Transmit and deliver a telegraphic message seasonably. The plaintiff claimed a recovery of $10,000 upon the following state of facts: On the twenty-fifth day of February, 1884, one R. W. Patterson filed in the office of the defendant in Chicago, at 3:45 3?. *r., the following message: “To Welker Given, Des Moines, Iowa: Will you consider a proposition to become editor in chief of an important paper at Denver; salary three to four thousand, and stock…
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Tort for a Failure to Transmit and deliver a telegraphic message seasonably. The plaintiff claimed a recovery of $10,000 upon the following state of facts: On the twenty-fifth day of February, 1884, one R. W. Patterson filed in the office of the defendant in Chicago, at 3:45 3?. *r., the following message: “To Welker Given, Des Moines, Iowa: Will you consider a proposition to become editor in chief of an important paper at Denver; salary three to four thousand, and stock interest? 11: so, come to Chicago to-night and sec the proprietor to-morrow It is a fine prospect. [Signed] “It. W.…
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, Justice.
The foundation of plaintiffs claim is that by the negligence of the defendants in conveying and’ delivering those messages he lost employment as editor of the Denver Tribune, which he would otherwise have secured, and that as another man did by reason of this negligence get that employnent, for which he received from $4,000 to $5,000 for a period of time during which plaintiff only received a much smaller sum, he is entitled to recover the difference in this action.
The first subject of inquiry, therefore, is the existence of such negligence as would make defendant liable for…
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- Western Union Tel'g Co. v. BibbCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1910
- Haviland v. Western Union Tel. Co.District Court, S.D. Texas · 1953
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