WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. v. ALDRIDGE

No. 7031.

66 F.2d 26 (1933)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. v. ALDRIDGE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

June 19, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis R. Stark, of New York City, and Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro and Norbert Korte, all of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Lakin & Leve, of Palo Alto, Cal., for appellee.

Before WILBUR, SAWTELLE, and GARRECHT, Circuit Judges.


WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

Hershell E. Aldridge brought this suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company, hereinafter called the telegraph company, for compensatory and exemplary damages for its alleged breach of duty in revealing, through an employee, the contents of a telegram, dated January 22, 1931, addressed to the appellee at Palo Alto, Cal., from his divorced wife, Naoma Aldridge, in Sheridan, Wyo. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the appellee for ...

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