Dickerson v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Lee county. Hon. Claude Clayton, Judge. Suit by J. L. Dickerson against the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Postal Telegraph Cable Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Lee county. Hon. Claude Clayton, Judge. Suit by J. L. Dickerson against the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Postal Telegraph Cable Company. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. See also 111 Miss. 264. Plaintiff J. L. Dickerson filed suit in the circuit court of Lee county against the Western Union Telegraph Company and Postal Telegraph Company for damages for the failure to deliver a message from E¡. S. Dickerson to J. L. Dickerson, sent from Tupelo, Miss., to Guin, Ala., said telegram bearing date of November 30, 1912, and reading as…
1Opinion of the CourtEthridge, J.
(After stating the facts as above). At the March term, 1916, a motion was made in this case by the Western Union Telegraph Company to dismiss as to it, claiming that any right of appeal of appellant was barred by the statute of limitations, which motion was overruled by the court in an opinion (111 Miss. 264, 71 So. 385), which is the law in so far as the limitation question involved in this appeal is. concerned. The question as to whether or not the Western Union would be liable would depend on whether the clause in the special plea of the Postal Company, in which it alleged that it procured…
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