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Show I COMPANY-NOT LIABLE IP STRIKERS INTERFERE ST LOUIS. Feb. 21. An opinion of the United States court of appeals written by Judge Smith McPherson and handed down Monday In St. Louis holds that u holograph company la not responsible for :ho delivery of messages which are interfered in-terfered with on the wire while tho company com-pany Is fighting, a strike. The appeals court reverses the findings Df tho lower court Jn a case In "which C. M. Ivy of Hot Springs, Ark., got a vordlct for $1478.62 against the Western Union Telegraph company. In 1907, while the strike of the operators oper-ators was on, Ivy received a message Faying his -son vas dead In Torre Haute, Tnd. Tie telegraphed an undertaker to take charge of the body. The message was not delivered, as a strike sympathizer sympa-thizer gave the sending operator a bogus "O. K." and destroyed the telegram- |