Gilliam v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

1. It is no part of the duty of a telegraph company’s agent in charge of an office, which receives messages and transmits money by telegraph, to write out an application for the transmittal of money by an applicant; and when one desiring to transmit money by telegraph makes a verbal application over the telephone to the agent of the telegraph company, requesting him to transmit the money on the applicant’s credit, and is informed by the agent that the rules of the company require the agent to have the money in hand before undertaking to transmit it, and where, for the convenience of the…