Wells, Fargo & Company's Express v. Fuller

FINLEY, Associate Justice.

B. F. Fuller and his wife, Flora, live in Paris, Texas. On the 23rd day of September, 1889, B. F. Fuller was notified, through telegram from D. L. Murray, of Phoenix, Arizona, of the death at that place of his son, D. B. Fuller, a man 25 or 26 years old, and married. This sad information he conveyed to his wife, the mother of the deceased, and they talked over the course they would pursue. Mrs. Fuller insisted that the body of their son should be brought to their home at Paris, Texas, for burial, and this was agreed upon. B. F. Fuller telegraphed to T. A. Fuller,…