Constitutional law. (See NOTE, p. 7.) Statute authorizing construction and maintenance of Lockhart v. Craig St. Ry. Co. (Pa.)..................... State cannot tax telegraph companies which have accepted PAGE 314 Western Union Tel. Co. v. Alabama State Board (U. S.) 1 State tax of a fixed sum per mile upon line of telegraph 13 Commonwealth v. Smith (Ky.)..................... New York statute providing for tax on telegraph, tele- People, ex rel. W. U. Tel. Co. v. Tierney (N. Y.)............. 50, note. State tax upon property of telegraph company within the . Attorney-General v. W. U. Tel. Co. (U. S.)...................... Municipal corporation cannot impose tax upon telegraph City of Philadelphia v. W. U. Tel. Co. (U. S.).. . ... . . Municipal ordinance imposing license fee upon telegraph City Council of Charleston v. Postal Tel. Cable Co. Telephone company having lines extending into more Matter of Taxation of Pennsylvania Teleph. Co. (N. J.) the State of New York as being a cruel and unusual People, ex rel. Kemmler v. Durston (N. Y.)........ Nor the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of Contract. In Re Kemmler (U. S.)............. A proposed contract of the board of electrical control of Armstrong v. Grant (N. Y.)................ PAGE. 834 842 132 Contracts of American Bell Teleph. Co. with local com- People v. Am. Bell Teleph. Co. (N. Y.).............. 26 Such contract held void for discrimination. State, ex rel. Postal Tel. Cable Co. v. D. & A. Tel. & 533 Contract of telegraph company with railroad company con- Latrobe v. Western Tel. Co. (Md.)....... 854, note. 857, note. Contributory negligence. Failure of traveler to notice electric light wire on sidewalk Brush Elec. Lighting Co. v. Kelley (Ind.)........ Act of driver of a fire engine in driving upon ground of Wilson v. Gt. So. Teleph. & Tel. Co. (La.). Act of owner of young horse, knowing it to be unaccus- Cornell v. Detroit Electric Ry. Co. (Mich.)......... Act of driver of float with heavy load above ordinary Williams v. Louisiana Elec. Lt. & Power Co. (La.).... 466 486 479 Failure of addressee to observe that telegram delivered to Western Union Tel. Co. v. Virginia Paper Co. (Va.).. Failure of a father suing for negligent failure of telegraph Western Union Tel. Co. v. Hoffman (Tex.)...... PAGE. 811 806, note. The sender of a message of inquiry as to market rates, had 657 Damages and measure of damages for error, etc., in transmission Company liable for actual damage sustained, where Same, though message in cipher and contents undisclosed American Union Tel. Co. v. Daughtery (Ala.) ........ 724 630 579 Abeles v. W. U. Tel. Co. (Mo.)...... 686, note. Company liable only for damages which may be presumed to have been within the contemplation of the parties 686, note. 806, note. 592 The following decisions are in cases where damages for In action for damages for delay of telegram announcing tionship between the plaintiff and the person deceased Western Union Tel. Co. v. Adams (Tex.) PAGE. 768 805, note. In given case, damages for mental injury of wife not Western Union Tel. Co. v. Kirkpatrick (Tex.)... Telegrams in the following language held sufficient to "Come at once. Mr. Potts is not expected to live. Potts v. W. U. Tel. Co. (Tex.)............. 807, note. In given case, language of commercial telegram held to Western Union Tel. Co. v. Lowrey (Neb.)....... Company not chargeable with speculative damages. In Cahn v. Western Union Tel. Co. (U. S.).. In a given case, held a proper question for the jury to 717 824 670 Garrett v. W. U. Tel. Co. (Iowa)............... 657 There being no evidence of wilful or gross negligence, the American Union Tel. Co. v. Daughtery (Ala.)................... 579 In case of loss caused by rise or fall of value during delay 724 VOL. III-55. If a message asking information as to market value was Garrett v. W. U. Tel. Co. (Iowa)............... By failure of a telegraph company to transmit a telegram Western Union Tel. Co. v. Collins (Kan.)................ As to what constitute actual damages in a given case, see PAGE. 637 664 675, note. For mental distress as an element of damages, see "Mental Discrimination. A telephone company cannot evade a statute requiring it Central Union Teleph. Co. v. State, ex rel. Hopper Contract of American Bell Telephone company with local State, ex rel. Postal. Tel. Cable Co. v. D. & A. Tel. & 529 533 Duty of telegraph companies to their customers and the public. Western Union Tel. Co. v. Short (Ark.).. 592 |