Dowdy v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ActiON for damages for mental anguish occasioned by negligence in delivery of a message, tried before Timber-lake, at September Term, 1898, of Chatham Superior Court. The plaintiffs resided at Sanford, on the Augusta Air Line Railroad. The male plaintiff went on business to Aberdeen, on the same R. R., leaving at home his wife and infant child. On February 21, 1898, about 2 o’clock p. m., the child became suddenly very ill.
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Civil ActiON for damages for mental anguish occasioned by negligence in delivery of a message, tried before Timber-lake, at September Term, 1898, of Chatham Superior Court. The plaintiffs resided at Sanford, on the Augusta Air Line Railroad. The male plaintiff went on business to Aberdeen, on the same R. R., leaving at home his wife and infant child. On February 21, 1898, about 2 o’clock p. m., the child became suddenly very ill. That night between 8 and 9 o’clock, Mrs. Dowdy sent to the telegraph office, at Sanford, to be transmitted to her husband, the following dispatch: Sanford, N. C.,…
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
This action was brought to- recover damages for mental anguish alleged to have been suffered by the plaintiffs on account of the alleged negligent failure of the defendant to deliver a certain telegraphic despatch sent by the fame plaintiff to the male plaintiff, her husband. In the wife’s telegram she informed the husband that their child was very sick, and requested him to come home at once. The wife was at Sanford and the husband at Aberdeen, both places being on the Augusta Air Line Railroad. The defense of the defendant as set up in their answer was that the message was not delivered to…
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