privilege of telegraph company

privilege of telegraph company
Absence of liability in transmitting a defamatory message, except where the transmitting agent of the telegraph company happened to know that the message was spurious or that the sender was acting, not in the protection of any legitimate interest, but in bad faith and for the purpose of traducing another. O'Brien v Western Union Tel Co. (CA1 Mass) 113 F2d 543.

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