Sec. 16-240. Delivery of messages.
Sec. 16-240. Delivery of messages. Each telegraph company, engaged in the business of dispatching messages for the public, shall, in towns where no free delivery is
maintained, deliver all dispatches to the persons to whom the same are addressed, or
their agents, by messenger, upon prepayment by the person sending such dispatch of
any proper charge for such delivery, provided such persons addressed, or their agents,
reside within one mile of the telegraph station to which the dispatch is sent. For each
failure to deliver a dispatch as required by this section, the person to whom the dispatch
should have been delivered may recover of such company twenty dollars in an action
on this section.
(1949 Rev., S. 5652.)