Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Mahone
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Court of Law and Chancery of the city of Norfolk in an action of debt. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentis, J.
The facts in this case are these: William Mahone, at eleven o’clock on the morning of February 6, 1915, delivered to the Western Union Telegraph Company, at its office in the city of Norfolk, Va., a telegram addressed to William Mahone, Jr., at Tye River, Virginia, as follows:
“Stock mentioned in my letter yesterday sold. Need not come.”
*423■Tye River is a station on the Southern Railway between Lynchburg, Va., and Washington, D. C., and according to the testimony the method of transmitting such a message is from Norfolk, Va., through the city of Washington, D. C., and thence by relaying it to Tye…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Austin v. TennesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Cook v. Marshall CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Kirmeyer v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. BollingSupreme Court of Virginia · 1917
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- United States v. YaquintaDistrict Court, N.D. West Virginia · 1962
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. BowlesSupreme Court of Virginia · 1919
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