Western Union Telegraph Co. v. R. L. Bowen & Co.

GAIHES, Associate Justice.

— This suit was brought by appellees against appellant to recover damages for the failure to deliver a telegraphic message.

The appellees were doing business at Van Alstyne, in Grayson County, and were the owners of a threshing machine. They requested one W. A. McKinney, who lived at Vernon, in Wilbarger County, to procure contracts for the threshing of grain in that county. McKinney, not being able to attend to the matter in person, procured one Jones to act for him. Jones having engaged with sundry persons the threshing of 22,000 bushels of oats at a toll of…