Hancock v. Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN bj H. S. Hancock against Western Union Telegraph Company, beard before Judge W. B. Council .and a jury at the November Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of OeaveN County. This was an action for damages on account of mental anguish. The Court submitted the following issues: 1. “Did the defendant negligently fail to transmit and promptly deliver plaintiff’s telegram .as alleged in the complaint ?” Ans.
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ActioN bj H. S. Hancock against Western Union Telegraph Company, beard before Judge W. B. Council .and a jury at the November Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of OeaveN County. This was an action for damages on account of mental anguish. The Court submitted the following issues: 1. “Did the defendant negligently fail to transmit and promptly deliver plaintiff’s telegram .as alleged in the complaint ?” Ans. “Yes.” 2. “What damages has plaintiff sustained by reason of defendant’s non-delivery of such telegram?” Ans. “$300.” From the judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
We gather from the record these facts: The plaintiff and his brother resided in North Carolina and their father S. M. Hancock at New Church, Va. The family burial ground is Goodwill Cemetery in Maryland, eight or ten miles from the father’s home. Its nearest depot is Pocomoke City, Maryland, four and a half miles away. New Church and Pocomoke City are about eleven or twelve miles distant. On Saturday, July 11, 1903, the plaintiff was at Johns Hopkins Hospital, with his brother, Thomas, .and his wife. Thomas had gone there for an operation, under which he died. At the defendant’s office in the…
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