Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Mexican Agr. Land Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Cleveland County; R. McMillan, Judge. Action by the Mexican Agricultural Land Company against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtTurner, C. J.
On March 26, 1907, Mexican Agricultural Land Company, defendant in error, sued Western Union Telegraph Company in the district court of Cleveland county. After alleging itself to be a domestic corporation and defendant to be duly incorporated under the laws of New York and a common carrier of telegraphic messages for hire, in the first count plaintiff alleged, in substance: That on September 11. 1906, one Morgan, plaintiff's secretary, delivered to defendant, at Norman, for transmission and delivery a telegram, which read:
“P. G. Manly, Mt. Carmel, Ill. Arrange attend directors’ meeting Peoria…
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