Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bell

REESE, Associate Justice.

William Bell sued the Western Union Telegraph Company to recover damages for its failure to promptly transmit and deliver a telegraphic message to his wife apprizing her of the death of her brother, in consequence of which failure his wife was unable to be present at the burial of her brother, and to see him before he was buried.

One of the messages was from H. W. Buttelmann to Mrs. William Bell, Port Arthur, Texas, advising her of her brother’s death, and the other was from the same party to Mike Maurer, Port Arthur, as follows: “Tell Mollie Bell to come at once; her…