Howell v. Sloan Messenger Co.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the lower court dismissing plaintiff’s suit, and taxing her with the costs.

Bessie Howell, tbe plaintiff, telephoned the defendant, Sloan Messenger Company, to send her a boy, a messenger boy, that she desired him to run an errand for her. In response to this telephone request for. messenger service, the defendant Sloan Messenger Company, which operates a general messenger service in the City of Memphis, sent one of its messenger boys to the rooming house of plaintiff, and plaintiff handed to the messenger boy a sealed envelope, without disclosing to the…