Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Harvey

Citations

• 67 Kan. 729
• 74 P. 250
• 1903 Kan. LEXIS 322

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Telegraph Company — Delivery of Message. In the absence of an understanding, agreement or custom that a telegraph company shall deliver a message at a place several miles beyond the town to which it is addressed, the extent of the contract of the company is the prompt transmission and a diligent effort to deliver the message in the town to which it is addressed.'</p> <p>2. -Nbt a Question for Jury. The submission of the question to the jury as to the duty of the telegraph company in certain cases to deliver messages beyond the free-delivery limits of the city wherein no such limits exist, and where the point to which it was contended the message should have been delivered was two miles beyond the place to which it was addressed, was misleading and erroneous.</p>