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POSTAL TEL.-CABLE CO. v. WARREN-GODWIN LUMBER CO.

No. 91.

251 U.S. 27 (1919)

POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY v. WARREN-GODWIN LUMBER COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 8, 1919.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Ellis B. Cooper, with whom Mr. J.T. Brown and Mr. J.N. Flowers were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. William D. Anderson, for respondent, submitted.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

In Primrose v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 154 U.S. 1, the court passed upon the validity of a contract made by a telegraph company with the sender of a message by which, in case the message was missent, the liability of the company was limited to a refunding of the price paid for sending it, unless, as a means of guarding against mistake, the repeating of the...

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