Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Campbell
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Nacogdoches County. Tried below before Hon. E. W. Simpson.
1Opinion of the Court
PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.
This is a suit by appellee against the appellant to recover damages for mental suffering caused his wife by the alleged negligence of the appellant in failing to transmit and deliver with reasonable diligence a telegram informing Mrs. Campbell that her brother had been fatally shot and requesting that she come to him at once.
The amended petition upon which the ease was tried in the court below alleges that about 3 o’clock p. m., on May 14, 1903, W. R. Watson, a brother of plaintiff’s wife, Minnie Campbell, delivered to defendant’s agent at Arcadia, Louisiana, the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Goodbar, White & Co. v. Out National Bank of Sulphur SpringsTexas Supreme Court · 1890
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