{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-9-703","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 77-9-703","heading":"Duty of telegraph and telephone companies to transmit messages; penalty for failure, neglect or refusal.","body":"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.","path":["Title 77. Public Utilities and Carriers","Chapter 9. Railroads and Other Common Carriers","Article 7. Telegraph and Telephone Companies."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.77.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:18Z","sha256":"380a49be986ab64c103bee8bea92b3c14e5f12480bdcbe7ee6c57f838404f5c9","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-9-701","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-77-9-705","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}