Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Hargrove

HUNTER, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee to recover damages from appellant for failing to deliver the following message:

“March 18, 1893.

“To Mrs. T. J. Hargrove, Smithfield, Texas.

“Daniel is very sick. Come at once.

“Maggie.”

Maggie, the sender of the message, was the wife of Daniel Hargrove, and the Daniel referred to in the message was her husband, and son of the addressee Mrs. T. J. Hargrove. Daniel Hargrove was then dangerously ill with pneumonia on his farm about two and one-half or three miles from Granbury, in Hood County, Texas, and continued to grow worse until, on…