Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Sockwell
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Sebastian Circuit Court, Fort Smith District; Daniel Hon, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This is a suit by appellee against appellant for damages for mental' anguish growing out of the alleged negligence of appellant in failing to deliver a telegram.
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Appeal from Sebastian Circuit Court, Fort Smith District; Daniel Hon, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This is a suit by appellee against appellant for damages for mental' anguish growing out of the alleged negligence of appellant in failing to deliver a telegram. The complaint contains, among other allegations, the following: Plaintiff says that his father, a man of advanced age, was prior to the 5th day of August, 1908, residing in Mountain Park, and that prior to said 5th day of August plaintiff alleges that his father had become sick and confined to his bed; that plaintiff was notified of…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts.) We will consider the questions in the order presented in the motion for new trial.
1. It was not error to exclude the offered testimony of the messenger boy that he was told by Hennessy that Sockwell was stopping at the Hotel Main. It was not shown that it was the duty of the boy in charge of the “hotel ’phone switch-board” to give information of the persons stopping at the hotel. Even had it been shown that appellee was at the hotel, the offered evidence did not tend to prove that it was the duty of the ’phone boy to receive messages sent to the patrons of…
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