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WESTERN UN. TEL. CO. v. CZIZEK

No. 300.

264 U.S. 281 (1924)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. CZIZEK.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 10, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Francis R. Stark and Mr. Beverly L. Hodghead, with whom Mr. J.H. Richards, Mr. Oliver O. Haga, Mr. Joseph L. Egan and Mr. J. Julien Southerland were on the briefs, for petitioner.

Mr. Richard H. Johnson, with whom Mr. Carey H. Nixon was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit against the Telegraph Company for failure to forward and deliver to the plaintiff a message from one Jones, found by the Court below to have been acting as agent for the plaintiff in the matter. The District Court found for the defendant, but the judgment was reversed by the Circuit Court of Appeals, 272 Fed. 223, and at a second trial, in deference to the Circuit Court of Appeals, a judgment was...

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