Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hicks

Appellee sued appellant for damages for mental anguish caused by its alleged failure to deliver a telegraph message filed with it at Brownwood, Tex., April 28, 1920, directed to appellee at Georgetown, where he was then at work in a hotel, notifying him that, his wife had dropped dead, which message was never delivered to him, but if it had been delivered to him with due diligence would have enabled him to attend his wife’s funeral, which he greatly desired to do. The case was tried with a jury and resulted in a judgment in appellee’s favor against appellant for the sum of $2,800.

We do not…