Foto v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

The plaintiffs, six in number, brought this suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company and the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Inc., to recover the sum of $10,000 damages for the alleged negligence of the employees of the two companies in failing to deliver a death message. It is alleged that the mother of the six plaintiffs died in the East Louisiana State Hospital at Jackson, Louisiana, on March 22, 1942; that the Superintendent of said Hospital sent a telegram to one of the plaintiffs at Convent, Louisiana, immediately after the death of her mother, but that through…