Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Swearingin

GAINES, Chief Justice.

This is a certified question from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District. The certificate is as follows:

- “In the above cause now pending before this court upon a motion to certify, upon the following facts, we held that appellee’s damages were not too remote but were in contemplation of the parties at the time of .the sending of the message hereinafter referred to, and were properly recoverable in this suit.

“Appellee’s son was killed at Fort Worth, Texas, August 1, 1899. At about 1 o’clock p. m. of that day one J. M. Stuart, acting for the wife of the…