Carnahan v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Appellant’s complaint alleges that the appellee was engaged “ in telegraphing for the public,” with a line of wires extending through the State of Illinois and into the State of Indiana; that it had an office at Fairbury, Illinois, and one at Oxford, Indiana; that, on the 21st day of May, 1881, appellant placed in the hands of appellee’s agent at Fairbury a message addressed to Walter Carnahan, at Oxford, which message the appellee undertook, in consideration of twenty-five cents paid by appellant, to transmit; that the person to whom the message was addressed lived within less than one mile…