Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Kinney

This was a suit by Emanuel H. Kinney against the Western Union Telegraph Company, to recover a penalty of one hundred dollars, under the provisions of section 4176, E. S. 1881, for the alleged failure of the company to transmit a dispatch, as it was required by law to do.

The complaint charged that the defendant was, at the time it was filed, engaged in telegraphing for the public, and had •a line of telegraphic wires, partly within the State of Indiana, which extended from the city of Columbus, in said State, to Hillsdale, in the State of Michigan; that the plaintiff, on the 21st day of…