Harris v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Not being able to agree with my associates, I hereby file the following dissenting opinion:

This suit was instituted by appellant against appellee for damages resulting to appellant by reason, of the breach of its contract to deliver -with reasonable dispatch the following telegram:

“San Antonio, Texas, 8:38 P. M. June 20, 1924. David Harris, Box 414, Mexia, Texas. Mothers dead. Come. Ollie Cameron.”

—and by reason of which breach appellant was deprived of the satisfaction and consolation of being present at the funeral and burial of his mother, resulting in his damages in the sum of $2,000. In…