Giddens v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Harris. City court'of Floyd county. March, term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
1. A telegraph company is not liable to the sendee of a telegram for damages arising from mental pain and suffering alleged to have been occasioned by the company’s negligence in failing to deliver such telegram to him with due diligence, in consequence whereof he was prevented from attending the burial of a friend ; nor for damages resulting from mental pain and suffering caused by jeers and derision to which he was subjected because he arrived at the place of burial after the intermerit had actually taken place. Chapman v. Western Union Tel. Co., 88 Ga. 763.
2. Nor can one recover from such…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Chapman v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1892
3Cited by6 opinions
- Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. GlawsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1913
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. FergusonIndiana Supreme Court · 1901
- Green v. Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. ChouteauSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1911
- Chapman v. Silver & BrotherCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1916
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