Gabrett v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
, Appeal from Louisa District Court. — Hon. W. R. Lewis, Judge. Action to recover damages for failure to transmit and deliver a telegraphic message. There was a trial by jury, and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for sixty cents. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
1. Telegraph companies: negligence: contracts limiting liability: damages. I. The evidence in the case shows that the defendant is a resident of Louisa county, and that at the time of the wrongs complained of by him, and for some time before that, he had been in the business of buying an¿ shipping live-stock to the Chicago market. His operations were not confined to his immediate neighborhood, but he bought and shipped *259on the Rock Island railroad, at points between Muscatine, Iowa, and Kansas City, Missouri, and including those places. On the evening of the twenty-eighth of June, 1888, he…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. HallSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- United States Telegraph Co. v. GildersleveCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1868
- Tyler, Ullman & Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1871
- Hibbard v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1873
- Sweatland v. Ill. & Miss. Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1869
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3Cited by13 opinions
- McGuire v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1906
- Wells v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1909
- Herron v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1894
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Love Banks Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1904
- Hendershot v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1898
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