De Voegler v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

LIGHTFOOT, Chief Justice.

The following is the substance of appellant’s petition, omitting the formal portions: (Appellant was the plaintiff below.)

“That heretofore, to wit, on the 4th day of May, 1891, the plaintiff, who is a young and inexperienced youth, was at No. 4. Fallkill Place, Poughkeepsie, New York, and being among strangers and desiring to get home to Sherman, Texas, had requested his mother, Mrs. M. B. Ricketts, then in Sherman, Grayson County, Texas, to send him money immediately. That on the 4th day of May, 1891, his mother applied to the defendant corporation to have said…