Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Warren-Godwin Lumber Co., 251 U.S. 27 (1919)

Postal Telegraph-Cable Company v.


Warren-Godwin Lumber Company
No. 91


Argued November 17, 1919
Decided December 8, 1919
251 U.S. 27

CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Syllabus

Under the Act of June 18, 1910, c. 309, 36 Stat. 539, 545, a telegraph company providing one rate for unrepeated interstate messages and another higher rate for those repeated, may stipulate for a reasonable limitation of its responsibility when the lower rate is paid, and the validity of such contracts is not determinable by state laws. P. 30.

116 Miss. 660 reversed.

The case is stated in the opinion.