Section 77-9-705 - Duty of telegraph and telephone companies to deliver messages; penalty for failure, neglect or refusal

A telegraph or telephone company shall deliver all messages addressed to a person residing or having a place of business in any city, town, or village where it may have an office, or within one mile of its office. If any telegraph or telephone company shall receive any message or matter for transmission, and shall fail, neglect, or refuse, without good and sufficient reason, to transmit correctly or deliver the same within a reasonable time to the person addressed, such person, or the person injured, shall be entitled to recover of the company in default the sum of twenty-five dollars, in addition to damages for any injury.Codes, 1892, § 4326; 1906, § 4879a; Hemingway's 1917, § 7665; 1930, § 7059; 1942, § 7835; Laws, 1908, ch. 76.