Waters v. . Telegraph Co.

This was an action for actionable negligence brought by plaintiff against the defendant for damages. The facts in substance: R. G. Dudley, who lived near Beaufort, N.C. left his daughter, Effie Waters, wife of plaintiff in a dying condition in a hospital in Petersburg, Va. He left with his dying daughter her mother, Dudley's wife, and their two daughters and plaintiff, her husband. In the contemplation of her death, at Beaufort, N.C. he gave defendant's manager, one E. D. Doyle, $325 to wire plaintiff, and the charge $2.19. This was about ten o'clock on the morning of 14 January, 1926. He had…