Western Union Telegraph Co. v. James
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Colorado. Tried below before Hon. M. Kennon.
1Opinion of the Court
PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.
Appellee brought this suit to recover damages for mental anguish caused by .the alleged failure of appellant to use reasonable diligence to deliver a telegraphic message announcing the illness of appellee’s child and received by appellant for transmission and delivery to appellee. The amount sued for was $1995.25. The trial in the court below by a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff for the full amount claimed in the petition. The material facts disclosed by the record are succinctly stated as follows :
On August 24, 1901, the plaintiff lived at…
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