Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Kirkpatrick

GAINES, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee to recover of appellant damages for mental suffering of appellee’s wife, alleged to have resulted from a failure to deliver according to contract a telegraphic message. The -plaintiff resided with his wife at Highland, and his wife’s father was upon his death bed in Galveston. Jerry Gordon, a relative of the family, delivered to the agent of the defendant company in Galveston a message for transmission to plaintiff, which read as follows:

“0. 8. Kirkpatrick, Highland Station:

“Come on first train. Bring Ferdinand. His father very low.…