Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Eskridge

This action was brought by the appellee, against the appellant, to recover damages alleged to have accrued by reason of a failure on appellant’s part to promptly deliver a telegraph message.

The material allegations of the complaint are, in substance, as follows:

That on the 13th day of September, 1891, the defendant was a corporation duly and legally organized, and owned and operated a line of telegraph from Indianapolis, Ind., to Bloomington, Ind., and were engaged for hire in transmitting telegraphic messages for the public between said points; that at 11 o’clock in the forenoon of *210said day…