Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Rowe

BIDS OH, Associate Justice.

Appellees brought this suit in the court below against appellant to recover damages for alleged delay in transmitting a telegraphic message. The trial before a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of appellee Mrs. Dona Bowe for the sum of $800.

Appellant’s first and third assignments of error complain of the action of the court below in overruling its general demurrer to appellees’ petition, and its special exception thereto, which assailed it upon the ground that said petition failed to allege any contract with appellant to transmit and deliver the…