Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Simpson

Acker, Presiding Judge.—

Appellee's husband died in California, and *425she sent a message by appellant from Los Angeles in that State, at 4 o’clock p. m. January 12, 1885, to her agent, R. A. Grossman, in Galveston, Texas, informing him of her husband’s death—that she would leave there at 2 o’clock p. m. the next day, and requesting him to send to her two hundred dollars by telegraph immediately.

When this message was delivered to Grossman between midnight and daylight on the morning of the 13th of January it appeared to have been sent from San Francisco instead of Los Angeles. Grossman went to…