Case ID: tex_108/html/0374-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice PHILLIPS", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Western Union Telegraph Company v. J. B. Jenkins.
    No. 2500.
    Decided April 18, 1917.
    Case Followed.
    The- rulings in Western TJ. Tel. Co. v. Tucker, ante p. 371, are followed and held to control the disposition of this case.
    Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Mitchell County.
    Jenkins sued the telegraph company and obtained judgment. This was affirmed on appeal by defendant, who then obtained writ of error.
    
      N. L. Lindsley, Ed J. Eamner, and George T. Wilson (George E. Fearons of counsel), for plaintiff in error. (See briefs in last preceding case.)
    
      W. P. Leslie and Boy all G. Smith, for defendant in error. (See briefs in last preceding case.)
   Mr. Chief Justice PHILLIPS

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a companion case to Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Tucker, this day decided, the suit having been instituted by J. E. Jenkins for damages suffered by himself and wife on account of the neglect of the telegraph company to' deliver the telegram set out in the opinion in that case, announcing the death of their grandchild. The facts of the two cases are substantially the same. Our ruling in the Tucker case is conclusive of the material questions involved in the present case, and a further discussion of them is unnecessary.

The judgments of the District Court and Court of Civil Appeals are affirmed.

Affirmed.