Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Watson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the circuit court of, second district, Panola county. Hon. Perrin H. Lowrey, Judge. Mrs. Watson, appellee, was plaintiff, and the telegraph company, appellant, defendant, in the court below. John Watson, the husband of appellee, in his lifetime, lived with his family, seven or eight miles from Patesville, in Panola county, Mississippi. He suffered from a cancer, and in November, 1900, went to Birmingham, Ala., to be medically treated.
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Erom the circuit court of, second district, Panola county. Hon. Perrin H. Lowrey, Judge. Mrs. Watson, appellee, was plaintiff, and the telegraph company, appellant, defendant, in the court below. John Watson, the husband of appellee, in his lifetime, lived with his family, seven or eight miles from Patesville, in Panola county, Mississippi. He suffered from a cancer, and in November, 1900, went to Birmingham, Ala., to be medically treated. He grew worse, and died on Wednesday, December 12, 1900. His brother-in-law, at whose house he died, telegraphed Mrs. Watson, widow of decedent, at about 7…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, C. J.
We cannot concur in the estimate put by learned counsel for appellant upon the strength of the case made by appellee. We are clearly of the opinion that the evidence makes out a plain *103case of willful disregard of the rights of the appellee, and fully warrants the imposition of exemplary damages. Since there was willful wrong, the Rogers case, 69 Miss., 748; 9 South., 823; 13 L. R. A., 859; 24 Am. St. Rep., 300, has no application. It was error, however, to allow proof of the cost — $100 — of exhumipg and reinterring in Batesville the body of appellee’s husband. There is no evidence that she…
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