Harrington v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Plaintiffs begun an action against defendant before a justice of tbe peace, by filing a written statement claiming damages for negligently transmitting and delivering to them a telegram concerning the price of grain. They recovered judgment before tbe justice and also in tbe circuit court on appeal.

In April, 1908, plaintiffs shipped a car of grain from a point in Minnesota to tbe Rothschild Grain Company in Chicago, Illinois. Tbe grain arrived at tbe latter place on April 25th and that company immediately wrote a telegram to plaintiffs offering seventy cents a bushel and delivered it to…