Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hughes
Supreme Court of Virginia
• Error tó a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Danville in' an action of debt. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
.Whittle, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
*241Tbe facts in tbis case are essentially the same as in the case of Western Union Telegraph Company v. Reynolds, 100 Va. 450, 41 S. E. 856, 93 Am. St. 971, where the court sustained a judgment against the company for the statutory penalty, for failure to transmit and deliver a telegram, the initial and terminal points of which were both within the State of Virginia, notwithstanding the circumstance that the line passed in part over the territory of another State.
It is insisted, however, by counsel for plaintiff in error that this doctrine has been…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. JamesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
- Hanley v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Lehigh Valley Railroad v. PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Virginia · 1902
- Powers v. Carter Coal & Iron Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1902
3Cited by6 opinions
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. LeeCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1917
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. BollingSupreme Court of Virginia · 1917
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. WhiteSupreme Court of Virginia · 1912
- Speight v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1919
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. SharpSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
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