Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Carter

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

Appellant prosecutes this appeal from a judgment awarding to appellee the sum of $500 as damages on account of the failure of the appellant to deliver the telegram herein below set out.

Appellee lived near Dexter, in Cooke County, Texas. His minor son, Ed. Carter, had been working at Marietta, in the Indian Territory, about fourteen miles west of Dexter, when he was taken sick, and after an illness of twenty-eight days, died on October 29, 1889, about 3:30 o’clock p.m. About 4 p. m. of that day the appellee, in company with Dr. Applewhite, who, as a physician, had…