Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Cates
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals, Fourth District, in an appeal from DeWitt County. Mrs. Cates sued the Telegraph Company and recovered, the defendant obtaining writ of error on the affirmance of the judgment upon its appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dibrell
This suit was brought by the plaintiff below, Mrs. Elizabeth Cates, against the Western Union Telegraph Company to recover damages resulting from the failure to properly transmit and deliver a death 'message to her father, whose presence at the funeral' and burial of her husband she greatly desired. The circumstances as alleged and shown by the evidence were that plaintiff and her husband had'been only shortly married, and moved from Cuero, Texas, to Batesville, Arkansas, where they had resided for less than two months and were strangers there, having no friend or relations at that place. Her…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. CatesCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1910
3Cited by1 opinion
- Baker v. BrownCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1918