Houston East & West Texas Railway Co. v. Granberry

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Associate Justice.—Mrs. Granberry instituted suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Houston & Shreveport Bailroad Company, and the Houston East & West Texas Bailway Company, for the recovery of. $1995 damages alleged to have accrued by reason of failure to promptly -transmit and deliver a telegram conveying to her intelligence of the illness of her husband. It was alleged that the railway companies owned telegraph lines and were partners, the facts being fully pleaded which show that they were associated in business as partners. The cause was tried with a jury, and resulted…