M'Caul v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

The plaintiff in error, a married woman, living in Gibson county, Tenn., was notified by telegram from Sikes-ton, Mo., where her young son was visiting, that he had been accidentally wounded. On the receipt of this intelligence she left for that place, reaching the bedside of her son on the 17th of November, 1903. The day after her arrival, he died. Desiring to take his body back to her home for interment, but lacking the means to do so, after his death she prepared and caused to be delivered to the operator of the Western Union Telegraph Company at Sikeston, for transmission to Trenton,…