Baldwin v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Simmons, Justice.

The plaintiff sued the telegraph company for $2,000 damages on account of the neglect and refusal of its agent to transmit a message from the plaintiff, accepting a situation which had been offered him, in consequence of which he failed to obtain the situation; and for $50 on account of expenses and time lost in going to obtain it. The declaration alleges that on the 3d of July, 1892, the plaintiff' received a message from W. E. Martin, a conductor in the employ of the Central Railroad and Banking Company, that1' if he would come to Macon at once, Martin would give him a…