Wann v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This action was instituted to recover damages for alleged carelessness of the Western Union Telegraph Company in transmitting a dispatch for plaintiff, from St. Louis to New York city.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. This action was instituted to recover damages for alleged carelessness of the Western Union Telegraph Company in transmitting a dispatch for plaintiff, from St. Louis to New York city. It was admitted on the record that the defendant was a duly incorporated'company, doing business under the “Act concerning telegraph companies” (R.- C. 1855, ch. 156). The answer denies carelessness on the part of defendant, and sets up a failure of the plaintiff in complying with the published regulations of the company, which, among other things, require the sender…
1Opinion of the CourtWagner, Judge
This was an action instituted, to recover damages for alleged carelessness of the Western Union Telegraph Company in transmitting a dispatch for plaintiff from St. Louis to New York city. The dispatch, as sent by plaintiff to his correspondent in New York, ordered' them to. ship to him at St. Louis, certain quantities of salt by “ sail,” and when it reached New York and was delivered it read, ship by “ rail;” that is, the word “rail” was substituted for the word “sail” in the original dispatch. Accordingly a large proportion of the salt was forwarded by railroad instead of by canal and lake,…
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