Legal Opinion
Kaufman v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided September 6, 1954No. Civ. A. No. 5638PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ATWELL, Chief Judge.
The plaintiff, a citizen of Dallas, Texas, residing in a hotel in that city, alleges that her daughter was at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and that prior to leaving by airplane for Dallas, sent a telegram to be delivered by the defendant, advising the plaintiff that she, the daughter, would arrive at Love Field Airport, in Dallas. That the defendant delivered the telegram to its messenger at Dallas for delivery to the plaintiff at Hotel Melrose. Said messenger advised the clerk at the Melrose Hotel that it was a death message.
That plaintiff was sensitive and of a nervous temperament,…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Southern Express Co. v. ByersSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. FosterSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. SpeightSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
- Missouri Pacific Railroad v. StroudSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- Wilcox v. Richmond & D. R. Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1892
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Bertha Kaufman v. Western Union Telegraph CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
- Bertha Kaufman v. Western Union Telegraph CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955