Western Union Telegraph Co. v. O. H. Wright & Co.

Citations

• 79 Fla. 600
• 84 So. 604

Syllabus

<p>1. Congress has so far occupied the entire field of the interstate business of telegraph companies -by enacting the provisions of the Act of Jung 18, 1910, respecting interstate telegraph rates, as to exclude State action invalidating a contract limiting the liability of a telegraph company for error in sending an unrepeated interstate message to the refunding of the price paid for the transmission of the message. -</p> <p>2. Where ■ an invalid judgment of a lower court is affirmed, on writ of error by the Circuit Court, such judgment of affirmance may be quashed on certiorari.</p>