Reliance Lumber Co. v. W. U. Telegraph Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Jefferson. Tried below before the lion. W. II. Ford. Suit instituted for damages by the Western Union Telegraph Co. Defendants answered by general demurrer, special demurrers, and general denial.
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Error from Jefferson. Tried below before the lion. W. II. Ford. Suit instituted for damages by the Western Union Telegraph Co. Defendants answered by general demurrer, special demurrers, and general denial. The cause went to trial before a jury on the claim for damages for the amount of money paid to employees, the sum of $207. The nature of the cause of action alleged was, that on or about October 25, 1879, plaintiffs were repairing their steam saw mill in Beaumont, Texas, and needed a certain amount of iron known as angle-iron, and wrote to Hr. Sam Watson, of the firm of J. S. Brown & Co.,…
1Opinion of the Court
West,.Associate Justice.
This was an action for damages by plaintiffs in error against the defendant in error, based upon a failure of the defendant in error to perform its contract and agree*397ment to deliver to the plaintiffs in error two telegraphic messages, sent to them from Galveston by one Watson, who was connected with the hardware and iron house of J. S. Brown & Co. The plaintiffs in error set up the fact of the delivery of the two messages by Watson to defendant in error, and the payment by him of the charges for transmission, their receipt of them, and their failure to transmit and…
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