Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Waller

Defendant in error, M. S. Waller, as plaintiff, sued plaintiff in error, Western Union Telegraph Company, as defendant, for damages for mental anguish upon allegations hereinafter fully set out. The case was tried before Hon. A. R. Hamblen, special judge of the Eleventh district court of Harris county, sitting with a jury, being submitted by the court upon a general charge, all the material parts of which are also hereinafter copied in full; and upon the jury's returning a verdict — also general — in the sum of $1,100 for plaintiff, judgment was accordingly entered January 17, 1916, in his…