Tyler, Ullman & Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was an action of assumpsit to recover damages of the Western Union Telegraph Company for alleged carelessness in transmitting a dispatch for appellants from Chicago to the city of New York. The delivery of the message at the company’s office in Chicago to the operator there, by one of the plaintiffs, is alleged, and proper averments of negligence and carelessness on the part of the company are found in the declaration, and proper averments of damage. The defendant pleaded non-assumpsit, with notice of special matter.
It appears the message was written on one of the blanks prepared by the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Elwood v. . the Western Union Telegraph Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1871
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. CarewMichigan Supreme Court · 1867
- Sweatland v. Ill. & Miss. Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1869
- Birney v. New York & Washington Printing Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1862
- Rittenhouse v. . Independent Line of TelegraphNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
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- Reed v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1896
- O'CALLAGHAN v. Waller & Beckwith Realty Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1958
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