Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Trumbull

The appellant questions in this court, for the first time, the sufficiency of a complaint to recover the penalty prescribed by the act of April 8,1885 (Acts of 1885, p. 151), for violation of the provisions of that act in the transmission of a telegraphic message.

The complaint alleged, among other things, that the appellee placed the message in the hands of the appellant’s agent, at the appellant’s office in the town of Knox, in Starke county, at five o’clock and thirty minutes in the afternoon of the 10th day of April, 1888, during the appellant’s office hours, and paid the appellant in…