Potts v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

MARR, Judge,

Section A.—Mrs. M. E. Potts (now Gibbon) originally instituted this suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company to recover $5000 as damages on account of the negligent failure of the defendant to deliver a certain telegram announcing the fatal sickness of her husband, Frank Potts, now deceased. The suit was begun some time in the spring of 1888, the first amended original petition bearing the file mark as of April 12, 1888. The facts detailed below appear substantially from the second amended original petition, filed April 7, 1890. The appellant, on March 10, 1888, caused the…