Western Union Tel. Co. v. Homer

BREWSTER, Commissioner.

This is a suit for damages for physical and mental suffering alleged to have been sustained by respondent, Mrs. W. L. Homer, because petitioner failed to deliver on time a telegram addressed to her. On jury findings favorable to respondents, the trial court awarded them judgment for $400, which was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals at Fort Worth. 157 S.W.2d 659.

Mrs. Doris Bates, who was a daughter of the Homers residing in Fort Worth, left her son, then five years old, with the Homers, in Gainesville, with the understanding that they were to place him on the train…