Greer v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Memminger, J., Greenville, Spring term, 1915. Action by Rowena Greer against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Gage.
This cause has been hither once before, 96 S. C. 423, 81 S. E. 517. It comes on a new complaint and for a trial de novo, but the transaction out of which both trials arose is practically the same.
The present contention of the plaintiff is that the cause now up is a suit at common law, and puts in issue only the wilful conduct of the defendant, arising out of its failure to transmit and deliver to a certain person at Anderson, S. C., a prepaid telegram, which she sent to him from Gainesville, Ga. That issue, the plaintiff contends, was…
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