Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Sligar

LESLIE, Chief Justice.

J. C. Sligar instituted this suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company for damages alleged to have accrued to him by reason of that Company’s negligence in failing to transmit and deliver to him a telegram advising him of his mother’s death and the date of her funeral, which he would have attended had he received the message, etc. The defendant answered by general denial, and specially alleged different grounds of contributory negligence. The trial was before the court and jury, and the answers of the latter to special issues convicted the defendant of negligence,…