Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Brooks

This is a suit in which defendant in error, Mrs. N. C. Brooks, seeks to recover damages from plaintiff in error for its negligent failure to transmit and deliver to her son, Richard T. Brooks, who was then at Bastrop, Texas, the sum of §15.00 (plus the cost of a telegram) according to contract, which sum was delivered to plaintiff in error’s agent at Paris, Texas.

In January, 1917, Richard T. Brooks, son of defendant in error, Mrs. N. C. Brooks, was adjudged insane and confined in the San Antonio State Hospital. In August he escaped, and at Bastrop was apprehended and detained by the sheriff…