Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Weiting

Opinion by

White, P. J.

§ 801. Telegraph companies; their liability; cipher dispatch; limitation of liability by contract; measure of damage in action against; venue of suit against; plea in abatement as to venue. Weiting, a cotton buyer for himself and others, at Galveston, Texas, had chartered the schooner Robinson, with a carrying capacity for one thousand three hundred and ten bales, for the purpose of loading her with the cotton bought by him. By the charter-party he had till the 3d day of January to load his vessel. Amongst others for whom he had purchased cotton was one Remington, a…