Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Halbert

Citations

• 124 Miss. 214
• 86 So. 760

Syllabus

<p>Commerce. Limitation of liability for nondelivery of interstate telegram held binding.</p> <p>Where a suit was instituted for damages for the nondelivery of a telegram, and a special plea was filed alleging that the message was an interstate message, and that conditions written on the bach of the telegram exempted the company from damages beyond a certain mount stated therein, it was error to sustain a demurrer to such pleas, and where the amount recovered was in excess of the maximum amount stipulated for in the contract, the judgment will be reversed.</p>