Cashion v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil action against the defendant for failure to deliver a message, sent by .the plaintiff to her brother-in-law, tried before Mclver, J., and a jury at May Term, 1898, of Superior Court of Iredell County. The plaintiff’s husband was killed while at work in Morganton.
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Civil action against the defendant for failure to deliver a message, sent by .the plaintiff to her brother-in-law, tried before Mclver, J., and a jury at May Term, 1898, of Superior Court of Iredell County. The plaintiff’s husband was killed while at work in Morganton. Having no relations there to whom she could apply for assistance for herself and child, she sent the following telegram to her brother-in-law, who had been living with her, but who was then absent at Davidson,- N. 0. “J. W. Mock, Davidson. Come at once; Mr. Oashion is dead. Killed at work. John Payne.” John Payne, the signor of…
1Opinion of the Court
Douglas, J.:
This is an action brought to recover damages for mental anguish suffered by the plaintiff from the neglect of the. defendant to promptly deliver a telegram. The facts material to its present determination are few.
On the 17th day of August, 1897, the husband of the plaintiff was killed while at work in Morganton, N. C., leaving the plaintiff and an infant child. Having no relations in the town, which was the residence neither of her own nor of her husband’s family, she caused the following telegram to be sent to J. W. Mock, her brother-in-law, who had been living with her in…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Young v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1890
- Sherrill v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1891
- So Relle v. W. U. Telegraph Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1881
- Reese v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1890
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. CoffinTexas Supreme Court · 1895
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