Mr. Justice Gray, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. This was an action by the sender of a telegraphic message against the telegraph company to recover damages for a mistake in the transmission of the message, which was in cipher, intelligible only to the sender and to his own agent, to wh…
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