Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Brown

Walker, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment for two hundred and seventy-five dollars in favor of appellee against appellant. The suit was brought the fifteenth day of March, 1887, by Brown, to recover of the appellant, the Western Union Telegraph Company, ten thousand dollars damages for delay in transmitting and delivering to him a telegram sent to him from Hallville, Texas, on the eleventh day of December, 1886, by one Wilson Livingston, in following language:

“Hallville, Tex., Dec. 11th, 1886.

“J. M. Brown, Sulphur Springs:

“Willie died yesterday evening at six o’clock. Will…