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WESTERN UNION TELEG. CO. v. HUGHES

No. 119.

203 U.S. 505 (1906)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. HUGHES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 17, 1906.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Rush Taggart, with whom Mr. John F. Dillon, Mr. George H. Fearons and Mr. Francis Raymond Stark were on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

There was no appearance for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

By statutes of the State of Virginia a liability to forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars was imposed upon a telegraph company for an omission to promptly transmit and deliver telegrams received by it. Code of Virginia, 1887, secs. 1291, 1292. On November 2, 1903, Hughes, the defendant in error, handed to the Western Union Telegraph Company, at its office in Danville...

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