Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Taylor

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

The appellee, F. M. Taylor, on and after the 6th day of July, 1888, resided about three miles from Sweetwater, in Nolan County. His son Cicero was at the former date very-sick at the house of one T. A. Davis, who resided in Kendall County, about three miles from Kendalia, a small town twenty-three miles from Boerne. On the evening of July 6, 1888, Davis wrote on an ordinary piece of writing paper the following message:

“ July 7, 1888.

“To F. M. Taylor, Sweetwater, Texas:

“ Your son Cicero is very low. Come at once.

[Signed] “ T. A. Davis.”

Davis placed this message, with the…