Wells Fargo & Co.'s Express v. Fuller

KEY, Associate Justice.—

Opinion. — In September 1889, and for a series of years prior thereto, appellee lived in the town of Paris in Lamar County, Texas.

On the 22nd or 23rd day of said month Dixie Fuller, a grown son of appellee, died in Phoenix,. Arizona. On the 27th day of same month appellee, by his agent, T. A. Fuller, contracted with appellant for the shipment of the body of Dixie Fuller from Phoenix, Arizona, to Paris, Texas, for a consideration of $91.40 paid in advance. This contract was reduced to writing in the following form:

“WELLS FARGO & COMPANY’S EXPRESS.

“Read the conditions of…