Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Waller

On Motion for Rehearing.

In our original opinion the main contentions of the telegraph company in this case were summarized as follows:

“The mental anguish alleged was not the proximate result of defendant’s negligence, and that the damages were too remote, contingent, uncertain, and speculative, and that there was no ground or element of recoverable or actionable damages alleged and proved.”

After much deliberation, and not without some hesitation, the questions so stated were resolved adversely to the plaintiff in error, and going, as they necessarily did, to the foundations of the ease, that…