Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Shannon
Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Shannon
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This action is based on unreasonable delay in the delivery of a telegraphic dispatch, claiming actual damages and also $25, the statutory penalty; and the company appeals because the court below allowed this penalty in addition to the actual damage. Appellant relies alone on the Code of 1906 as it appears in print with the notations of the annotators, while the appellee thinks the notes are not evidence, and that the company had to show, negatively, that the section had not been enrolled. He further urges that, even if the section (4879a) which he invokes for the penalty is not a part of
Reversed and remanded.
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- Postal Telegraph Cable Company v. William P. Shannon
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- 1. Telegraph Company. Statutory penalty. Code 1892, § 4326. Statutes. Repeal. Act adopting Code 1906, § 13. Code 1892, § 4326, imposing a penalty on telegraph companies for unreasonable delay in delivering messages, was a general law and was repealed by § 13 of the act adopting the Code of 1906, providing that all laws of a general character not brought forward and embodied in the Code of 1906 should be repealed. 2. Same. Repealed statute published as if re-enacted. Legislative journals. Enrolled bills. If a repealed act of the legislature be published in a compilation of statutes, the courts, taking judicial notice of the laws, will not enforce it, although the legislative journals, unsupported by the enrolled bill in the office of the secretary of state, recite its reenactment.