McFarlin v. Gulf States Telephone Co.

About 10 o’clock on the night of March 7,1922, appellant’s child was taken seriously sick with diphtheria, and died about 3 o’clock the next morning. Appellant alleged that he was not a subscriber to the telephone service of appellee, but that over a neighbor’s phone he attempted to get the central operator of appellee at Hamilton, Tex., which was 7 miles from his home, and that he was unable to get central to answer, and that, but for the negligence of the servants, agents, and employees of appellee in failing to answer said telephone, he would have been able to get a physician to administer…