Missouri Court of Appeals December 3, 1906 (Usher v. Western Union Telegraph Co.)

ELLISON, J.

Plaintiff, claiming to have suffered pecuniary loss through the misfeasance of defendant’s agent, brought this action for damages and recovered judgment in the trial court.

The city of Parsons, Kansas, and the village of Min-den, Missouri, are about sixty miles apart. In each of them the defendant has telegraph operators who receive and transmit messages.