Telephone Co. v. Brown
Tennessee Supreme Court
EEOM DAVIDSON. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Davidson County. J. W. BonNER, J.
1Opinion of the Court
Caldwell, ,T.
The Cumberland Telephone Company appeals in error from a judgment for $500 recovered against it by J. T. Brown for negligent delay in the delivery of a message.
Brown was a resident of the city of Nashville, but was temporarily at Hickman, a small village about fifty-eight miles from Nashville, .and two miles beyond Cordonsville. The telephone company had an office at Nashville and one at Gordons-ville, but none at Hickman.
In the afternoon of September 16, 1897, Brown’s son went into the office at Nashville and stated to the operator there that he had an important message for his…
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