Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Nations

GARRETT, Presiding Judge,

Section A—Parthena Nations brought this suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company for damages, consisting in injury to feelings arising from the alleged failure of the appellant to deliver a telegram to her son S. H. Perry, announcing the death of her husband. She alleged that she was deprived of the aid, consolation, and advice her son would have given her, and of his presence as a staff to uphold her in such a dire calamity; and that she was damaged in the sum of 25 cents paid for the transmission of the telegram, and in injury to her feelings.

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