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B. D. WARFIELD, *jgvda}, 0/ Aug. 193/. 291
District Attorney, '
LOUISVILLE, KY. REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS.
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witness and taxed attye, feee;
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Attorney L. & N. Railroad Co.
{~31 1. Give (late 01‘ ﬁling all pleadings, and their character. as petition etc., etc.
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3. In reporting a continuance. state at whose cost.
4. In reporting ajudg‘ment, state (late and amount of judgment. If appeal be taken. state by which party, and whether
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Hon. 8. M. Wilson,
Counsel,
Lexington, Ky.
Dear’Sir:
~~Gurry Patrick v. L. & N.~~
Breathitt Circuit Court.

The above—styled case is set for trial at Jack—
son on the sixteenth day of the term, or, Thursday of the
third week.

\\g I now hand you Law Agent Landrum's letter to me,

§;§ of July 14, in which he recommends a settlement of this

:3: case, at not exceeding #75, if necessary to go that high ‘

5> in order to secure a settlement, but thinks possibly the

\£§ case might be settled for tSO.

%\ On July 10 I wrote Mr. Landrum as follows:

§§§ "I have your memorandum of July 9 relative to .

X the case or Curry Patrick v. L. a. N., Breathitt Cir-L
cuit Court.

‘v "The only investigation we have, in this case,

E: consists of a letter from Superintendent Seargeant to
hr. Donohue, of date June 19, 1916, a copy of which
:f was sent to Judge Wilson, as fellows:

\J "'Your letter of June 15th, referring to Judge
Wilson's of the 14th, suit Curry Patrick seeking to
recover $2000.00 failure to deliver a telegram for—
warded to him at Stanton by Sherman Morris from Jack—
son, April 5rd, 1916.

"'There is attached hereto 3 copy of the wire

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in question. You will note that it bears an OK at
12.11 p.m. Mr. Shennan Morris is in the employ of
this company working as clerk at Jackson. Thezgent
says that in conversation with Morris he reports that
the message was filed with Operator w. R. Robinson,
who is not now in the service but is working for the D.
T. a I. at Detriot, and offered to pay for its trans-
mission but Robinson informing Morris in view of the
fact that he was an anployee he would send it Dead head.
Morris then informing Robinson that he did not care how
it went just so the infonnation was given to Patrick.
Further informing Robinson to advise the Agent at Stan—
ton that the message could be deliVered to Patrick by
his children who were attending school at Stanton.

"'The Agent Stanton says that his information from
Robinson at Jackson was that Patrick lived somewhere between
Stanton and Rossyln and inquiry from any number of children
passing the station that day failed to indicate that there
was any such party as addressed.

"'The Agent Stanton says also that he could not leave
the office and not knowing where Mr. Patrick lived made no
effort to deliver it.’

"Please undertake at once to make whatever investiga—
tion is necessary to verify the claim of Curry Patrick,
that he did not know of the death of his son, and could
not have got to Lee dity, in time to attend the funeral.

"I will try to have Operator W. R. Robinson, re—

~ ferred to in Superintendent Seargeant's letter of June
19, interviewed in regard to this case. '

"I wish you would particularly investigate this case
at Stanton, as it seems to me that, if Patrick was living
right near Stanton, our agent should have had no difficulty
in making delivery. I feel somewhat apprehensive about
this case.

"In the case of Western Union Tel. Co. v. Snodgrass,
the Supreme Court of Texas held as follows:

"’In an action against a telegraph company fbr dam~
ages for failure promptly to deliver a message sent plain—
tiff by one acting as his agent, the fact that the message
was transmitted without charge, because of the sender be—
ing an employee of the defendant, was no defense.‘

"If this is the law in mentucky——and I have very lit—
tle doubt that it will be held to be, in a proper case, as
the Snodgrass case is cited as authority fer this state—
ment of the law feund in 37 Cyc., page 1664: 'A telegraph
company may require, before accepting and contracting to
transmit a message, that its reasonable charges for the

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S. M. W. 3

service demanded shall be prepaid; but the right to
require such prepayment is a privilege which the com—
pany may waive, and it it undertakes to render a dead~
head or collect service service, or to extend credit
therefor, charging the tolls for the same at the regular
tariff rates to the account of the sender, or agreeing
to accept payment at a later date, it is held in the ab—
sence of contract to the sane degree of care and dili—
gence as though the charges had been fully prepaid,'——I
am afraid we are going to find that this case is going
to be one for settlement if your investigation at Stanton
shows that we did not use reasonable diligence to make
delivery of this message.

"Please hurry this matter all you can, and let me

know the least amount for which this case can he settled."

I have not yet been able to secure any information
from W. H. Robinson, who is now in the employ of the Detroit,
Toledo & Ironton R. Go. I doubt if I shall be able to do so
by the time this case is called for trial; but it would seem,
from Mr. Landrum's letter to me, of the 14th instant, that,
when seen, his evidence can not help us very much.

Please wire me promptly, upon receipt of this letter,
what you think about our liability in this case and the advisa-
bility of settling at not exceeding $75.

Yours truly, :
// 1/\
///&w/ 4,.W/
/ Chief Law Agent.
Enc.

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 Jackson, Ky., I.'Iay 21?, 1917.
Curry Patrick v. Ld’cN
'- dreathitt L5ircuit Court.
July Term, 1917).

July 4, 1916, Rule against plfi”. to verify.

July 7, Petition verified and rule discharged.

July 8, Deft. filed demurrer to petition and without waiving
demur re r file d answer .

July 20, Demurrer to petition overrwled, Deft. excepts.

July 22, Continued for defendant.

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’ Br'eathitt Circuit Court. - _
V Curry Patrick, Plaintiff.
’ vs.-?etition. 1
' Louisville “Janine Railroad .30., Defendant,
The plaintiff Curry Patrick states that the defendant,
Louisville dashvilie Eeilrcad Coo, is a corporation duly created
by la: and engaged in operating many lines of rsilroadand in par-
ticular one line together with ; telegraph line from Lexington,
Fayette County, Ky., by way of itanton, Powell County, Ky; and
Jackson, Breathitt County, Ky; and other stations on said telegraph
and railroad line;zc lcieherts in latcher County, Kentucky; that
it receives and transmits telegrsrs and ﬁessages over its said
telegraph line.
' I That it has full power to eontraet and be contracted
with in operating said line oi railroad and its said telegraph
line and to sue an? be sued and to carry on a business of operating . -
a operating railroad or railroads snd.also a telegragh lineiin
connection with said railroad or reedsaud it ea, so engaged at
the times hereinafter set out, ' _
‘Ehe plaintiff says that he is the father of ﬁreen
Patrick, who departed this life at Hazard, Perry County, Ky“ on
has 2d day of April, 1316.
That said Green Eatriek was raised by him in
Magoffin County Ky“ and plaintiff now resides in about one mile
of Stanton Powell County, Kentucky, a station on plaintiff's afore- '
, . said line of railroad and telegraph line and he resided there I
‘ . at the times hereinafter set out. 1'
‘ t ‘I . That on the Bd-dayhof April, 1916, the remains of b:
D. . 7. his said soanreen Patrick.Were shipped oVer defendants line of a '1
pfbyg7 '_‘ railroad to Jackson, Ky. and shipped over the Ohio & Kentucky.‘ Ir, aﬂgﬁ
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Railroad to Lee City, Wolf County, ﬂy. and were taken from there
to Magoffin County, Ky., where he was raised ahd burrs dat about
four o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th, day of April, 1916,
‘ That on the morning of the hrd day of ﬁpril, 1916, .
on Sherman Kerrie executed and delivered to the defendant at
Jeekson Breathitt County, Ky. a certain telegram in words and .
V figures as follows to—witz-
Jackson, Ky. 4/3/16.
1 Curr; Iatrich,
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~ ' green killed list ntghtst Hazards “ass through i
' tomorrow on we; to Zea City,
Sherman Ferris.
I That said Eherman ﬁerris is the son-in—lew of this
plaintiff anC o brotherwinwlaa of ssid Green Tatrirjkg that said '
. telegram £58 addressed tr this plaintiff at Stanton ané it was
I accented by the defendantﬁompeny for transmission and delivery to
him at said plane anf defendant agreed with said ﬁorris that it
would transmit and deliver said telegram to said plaintiff without
' charge the said Norris being an employee of the defendant Company '
at said time.
That the defendant, negligently, carelessly and .
with gross negligence failed to deliver said telegram to him
, in time to inform him of said fast or to deliver said telegram
to aim at all.
' Ehat by said telegram, said hernia attempted to
inform this plaintiff of the death of his said son and that his
remains would be taken to Lee City for burial.
_ That it was the purpose of said horris in sending
. said telegram to this plaintiff to notify him of the death of
1 his said son and to have him meet his remains at the 0. d K.
' i Junction on its line of railroad and to accompany same to Lee
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Gity, Wolf County, hgo nor that he was exgeeted to notifyhie
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relatiVue and frienas of his death and burialo
» That said telegram shows on its face that it was of
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transmission and deliver; to him, and hat the defendegt Beet
its oohtreet ahg'5greohent to trenshit ent CQRLVer said telegram
- to him ehi had it transeitted and delivered said telegram to him
’ a3 the wetter: oomtaineﬁ in it 1x;y£:tc ant whioh it agreed to do,
he 00916 and would lava net the remains o? hi? 5910 son st the saié
Junction and woulf have accordehied it to Lee Sitg, T9150 Seuut;,
:3. and ﬁrst there to {eﬁoffih Sevn19? [ya Where they x?re trréeﬁ
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‘ amt women nets no :zxnn a}: eeiativee any trieaos e; was meats oz
his seiﬁ son and of the feet that his remains were to be buried
in LﬁiC tegoftin ﬁomhtg, Ky.
That by r seen of the ﬁafénrenofCoEeeﬂjfeniah;
Company to tvahsrit Led deliver said taleirem to him and its -
failure to hecv e:i€ agreement and contract to ﬁe so, he had no
oﬁportuhitg of bait? sovieeﬁ er the Feeth of his_e if so: nor of
his burial aﬂﬁ h: reason or is: failure of said Gofenﬁunt to .
transmit snﬂ deliver said telegram to him as it agreed to 60, he
woe prevented from meeting the remains of eoié sea at seif Junction
and of eoeompenin? it to Lee City, 13. enﬁ Faﬁoffin Hountg, 15. i
where it was buried, and he was prevented from informing his 1
relatives and friends of the death Bod burial of his said son, and E
of being present at his burial and of showing tha love respect and E
affection which he had for him; that by the reason of the failure
. of the defendant to transmit and ﬁeliver said telegram to him in i
‘ ties for him to meat seiﬁ reoeihs at said Junction and to he 5
' groseht at the burial of his said remains he has suffered and how E
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in the sum of Two Thovsond Dollars ($3.QQQ.JG} i
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