Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Cook

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of appellee, Cook, for the sum of $1,000 assessed as damages for “mental anguish” alleged to have been caused by the failure of appellant company to exercise due care and dispatch in transmitting and delivering a long-distance telephone call from Bridgeport, Tex., to Fort Worth, Tex.

The judgment rests upon the following facts as substantially stated, to wit: Appel-lee at the time was living near the town of Bridgeport in Wise county, and was notified that his son had been accidentally killed in the town of Moran, in Shackelford county, some 140 miles…