Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Sutton

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

*192Appellee, James S. Sutton, resided with, his family, consisting of wife and five children, aged from eight months to 11 years, about equal distance between Springfield and Mackville, and about five miles from each. One night in April, 1912, when all the children were bedfast with measles, the youngest was suddenly and seriously taken with membranous croup. Sutton had a telephone in his house connected with the Springfield Exchange, and Dr Thompson who had been frequently in attendance upon his children treating them for…