Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Cowan

This is a suit for damages based on the failure of appellant to promptly deliver a message conveying to appellee the news of the death of his brother, W. D.-Cowan, Sr., in Pecos, Tex. The cause was submitted to a jury on special issues, and upon their responses thereto judgment was rendered in favor of appellee for $1,000, with 6 per cent, interest from date of judgment.

Appellant makes no statement of the material facts in the case, and appellee has filed no brief, and the necessary facts have been gleaned from the statement of facts by this court. On January 9, 1923, W. D. Cowan, a brother…