Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Redding

— When this ease was before this Court the first time, (See 114 So. R. 533, 94 Fla. 905) it was held that the declaration was defective in that it alleged that ‘ ‘ plaintiff was subjected to great anguish and mental suffering,” etc., and it was remarked, in the opinion by Mr. Justice Terrell, that “there may be a marked distinction between actually suffering mental anguish and being ‘subjected’ to it.”

The declaration was amended to meet this criticism, and on the second trial of the case,, upon evidence differing in some respects from that introduced at the first trial, the jury found in…