Show SUNDAY TELEGRAPH MESSAGES notes a recent decision bythe supreme court of the state or of georgia which amounts to a virtual exemption of telegraph from loyalties lonal iea ties for failure to deliver messages mese ages on sunday the laws awe of the bdate and it may be mentioned that the code of many others of the to states make it unlawful for any per son to pursue his business or tile the work of his ordinary calling on the first day of the week commonly called sunday and the court holds that tills this applies to telegraph companies as well as to anybody else under the deals ion wherefores there fores a telegraph company is x biot ot put by law and cannot put it self by contract under any duty t to transmit and deliver messages 01 on that day unless by reason of the subject matter of the messages in question that transmission and delivery can be fairly considered as an a work of necessity or charity and a failure to perform the work on the lords day with reasonable dispatch will not subject the company to the statutory penalty and an action is in not maintainable the decision to is interesting by reason of the large number of damage suit the companies have had to defend for failure to fulfill the contract supposed to be existing when the message menage was wa accepted and it will be more interest ing still if the courts in the other states having similar laws shall put a similar construction upon them |