Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Sanders

This suit was instituted in justice court against appellant for damages alleged to be accrued on account of the failure of appellant to transmit and promptly deliver the telegram shown in the court’s conclusions of fact hereinafter set out. The court’s conclusions of fact make a sufficiently full statement of the case. The court found:

“(1) On January 17, 1917, J. H. Oliphant filed a telegraph message with the agent of the Western Union Telegraph Company at Hemp-hill, Tex., addressed to Jim Sanders, stock dealer, Center, Tex., stating: ‘Can see hogs today. Over thirteen thousand pounds. Come…