Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bolling
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News in an action of trespass on the case. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
This is an action for the recovery of the statutory penalty (Code, 1904, sec. 1294-h, cl. 5, 6) and damages for an error in the transmission, which caused delay in the delivery, of a telegram sent on August 4, 1915, from L. J. Bolling, at Newport News, Va„ to C. W. Bloxom, at Nassawadox, Va., reading as follows:
“Meet me at Cape Charles instead of Cheriton about nine morning.”
Nassawadox is a small place upon the line of New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad, in Northampton county, .on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Because of the fact that the Chesapeake Bay lies between the Eastern…
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