Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Holley

CONNEE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in appellee’s favor in the sum of three hundred and eighty dollars for the failure to deliver to appellee’s wife a death message, resulting in alleged damages of two thousand dollars. Appellee and his wife at the time lived at 1003 Kennedy Street, Fort Worth, Texas. Her sister Alice died in the city of Austin on the morning of March 9, 1907. The surviving husband, Otis E. Carter, entrusted the transmission of a message to Mrs. Holley to his friend W. J. J. Terrell, who delivered to appellant’s agent at Austin, about three fifteen o’clock…