A telegraph or telephone company shall transmit all written messages between points where it may have offices within the state. If the telegraph or telephone company shall receive any message or matter at one of its offices in this state for transmission to a person addressed at a point where it has an office in the state, and shall fail, neglect or refuse without good and sufficient reason to transmit the same in a reasonable time to the office at the place of the person addressed, such person or the person injured shall be entitled to recover of the company in default the sum of fifteen dollars, in addition to damages for any injury. This section shall not apply to offices of telephone and telegraph companies in towns of less than one thousand inhabitants where the telephone or telegraph companies do not employ and control the operator.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 9 - Railroads and Other Common Carriers
Article 7 - Telegraph and Telephone Companies
§ 77-9-701. Offices of telegraph companies
§ 77-9-707. Evidence of transmission of telegram in suits against telegraph companies
§ 77-9-709. Duty of telegraph and telephone companies to transmit public messages
§ 77-9-711. Erection of telegraph and telephone lines
§ 77-9-713. Local authorities may regulate construction and maintenance of lines
§ 77-9-715. Liability for damages caused by erection, continuance and use of lines
§ 77-9-717. Exercise of eminent domain for construction of new lines
§ 77-9-719. Consolidation and merger of telephone lines, exchanges and property authorized
§ 77-9-723. Nothing in preceding sections shall mandate consolidation and merger
§ 77-9-725. Blacklisting of telegraphers because of union affiliation is unlawful
§ 77-9-727. Conspiracy to blacklist telegrapher is unlawful
§ 77-9-729. Telegrapher discriminated against may recover actual and exemplary damages