Legal Opinion
Freschen v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
City of New York Municipal Court
Decided April 15, 1921PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Action for damages for failing to transmit a cable message.
1Opinion of the CourtCallahan, J.
Plaintiffs bring this action -against defendant to recover damages sustained by reason of the alleged negligence of defendant in failing to trans*291mit a cable message. The conceded facts are that plaintiffs are copartners doing business under the firm name of Metal Products Company; that prior to August, 1917, their place of business was in Newark, N. J.; that on or about August first of that year they moved to No. 32 Broadway. New York city, and notified the manager of defendant at Newark to this effect on or about August ninth, requesting him to thereafter forward all telegrams and cables…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Breese v. United States Telegraph Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Rittenhouse v. . Independent Line of TelegraphNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
- Kiley v. . Western Union Telegraph Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Halsted v. . Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1908
- Richardson v. New York Central & Hudson River RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1907
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3Cited by5 opinions
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- At&T Communications of Maryland, Inc. v. Comptroller of the TreasuryCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2008
- Denmark v. New York Telephone Co.Civil Court of the City of New York · 1978
- At&T Communications of Maryland, Inc. v. Comptroller of the TreasuryCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 2007
- MacDonald v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1941