G., C. & S. F. R'y Co. v. Levy

Stayton, Associate Justice.—

The cause of action set out in the brief of appellant is as follows:

“ The plaintiff alleged that appellant owned and operated a telegraph line from the town of Cameron, in Milam county, to the town of Cleburne, in Johnson county, transmitting telegrams for' hire. That on September 30, 1882, appellee’s wife, Bettie Levy, died, and his infant child died the day before near said town of Cleburne. That appellee, being in straitened circumstances, among strangers, and in need of pecuniary assistance about the funeral obsequies and burial of his wife, and desirous of…