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Show NOT COMMON CARRIER. Oregon Court Decides in Favor of the Western Union. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 16. That the Western Union Telograph company Is not a common carrier Is tho opinion of Presiding Pre-siding Judge M. C. George of tho State Circuit court. The company was sued by D. E. Melklo, a grain and hop buyer, for J140, for failure to deliver a mcssago sent from Cleveland, O., to Walla Walla, Wash. Tho message had not been repented, re-pented, and tho company alleged liability only for the amount paid for Bending it. Tho plaintiff asserted in a demurrer to the answer that the company was a common com-mon carrier and hud been held to be such by a decision of the Supreme court of Ohio under a statute that was similar to that of Oregon. |