Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Bouchell

HUHTEB, Associate Justice.

The failure to deliver the message set out in the plaintiffs petition made a prima facie case of negligence against the telegraph company. One of its agents testified that the cause of the delay was the bad condition of the line between the office of the company at the Cotton Belt depot in Fort Worth and its general relay office in said city. Ho evidence whatever was offered by the company to explain what the trouble was nor to excuse itself for the condition of this mile or two of line in the city. We therefore conclude that the delay of about twenty-four hours in…