Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Brown

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The Western Union Telegraph Company, hereafter called the defendant, complains of alleged error in the trial of an action against it by the plaintiff below, Hattie E. Brown, in that the court refused to direct a verdict in its favor, and in that the court instructed the jury that the plaintiff was entitled to recover and that the only question for them to determine was the amount of damages th'at the plaintiff sustained by the defendant’s receipt from the signer and its sending over its wires to the plaintiff’s mother, Mrs. Ole Pearson, this telegram:

“49 N. L. St. Paul,…