Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Adams

HÉNRY, Associate Justice.

Appellee brought this suit to recover damages for defendant’s delay in delivering the following message:

“ Waco, October 12, 1887.

“ To F. F. Adams, Athens:

“ Clara, come quick. Rufe is dying.

[Signed] “ O. M. Simmons.”

His allegations are that said message was delivered to appellant’s agent at Waco about 10 o’clock of said day, and that the message was not delivered to appellee until shortly before noon on the 13th day of October, 1887; that appellee was a merchant in Athens, residing there, doing business in the post-office building, within one hundred yards of…