Faubion v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

SPEER, Associate Justice.

Appellant sued the appellees, Western Union Telegraph Company and Texas Telegraph and Telephone Company, in the District Court of Wichita County, to recover damages because of mental anguish suffered by him in consequence of their failure to transmit and deliver to him at Wichita Falls certain telegraphic messages notifying him of the serious illness and death of his father at Leander. From a judgment in favor of both telegraph companies the plaintiff in the case has appealed. In his amended petition appellant alleged that in the transmission of messages from Leander…