Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Priester
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided October 9, 1924No. 3 Div. 677PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Plaintiff Priester's unrepeated telegraphic message to his correspondent in New Orleans was so changed in transmission that his offer to sell a quantity of pecans at fifty cents a pound was translated into an offer to sell at fifteen cents a pound; the result being that he delivered his pecans, and in return received only fifteen cents a pound. Somewhat more in detail the facts are stated in the opinion of the Court of Appeals.
Since telegraph companies have been given over to the Interstate Commerce Commission (8 U.S. Comp. St. § 8563), rights and liabilities arising out of interstate…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Railroad Co. v. LockwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Briggs v. SpauldingSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Esteve Bros. & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
- Primrose v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Southern Express Co. v. ByersSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Pickett v. MatthewsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1939
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. PriesterSupreme Court of the United States · 1928
- Ridgely Operating Co. v. WhiteSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
- Williams v. City of JacksonvilleSupreme Court of Florida · 1935
- Russell v. International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft & Agricultural Implement WorkersSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
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