Western Union Tel. Co. v. Lane

STOKES, Justice.

This suit was filed by appellee, O. P. Lane, against appellant in which appellee *782sought to recover damages alleged to have accrued to him on account of the failure of appellant promptly to deliver an urgent telegram announcing the serious illness of John Caldwell, who was the father of ap-pellee’s wife. Appellee and his wife resided at Dumas, in Moore County, and John Caldwell was a resident of Meridian, in Bosque County. On October 9, 1939, at 7:05 o’clock P.M. Ray Harvey, a grandson of John Caldwell, delivered to the agent of appellant at Meridian a telegram addressed to…