Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bowen
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Harris County. Bowen sued the telegraph company and recovered a judgment, which was affirmed on defendant’s appeal, whereupon appellant obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chiee Justice.
This suit was brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error to recover damages for an alleged negligent failure of the telegraph company to deliver a telegraphic message. He recovered a judgment which was affirmed upon appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals.
At 3 a. m. on the 18th of October, 1901, D. P. Bowen, the father of plaintiff, died on a farm near Beaumont, on which he had been at work; and on the same day one Hammon, superintendent of the farm, delivered at Beaumont for transmission by the company the following message: “S. G. Bowen, Houston,…
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