Case Name: WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. v. JONES
Court: Texas Courts of Civil Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-11-09
Citations: 235 S.W. 288
Docket Number: No. 7901
Parties: WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. v. JONES.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 235
Pages: 288–288

Head Matter:
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. v. JONES.
(No. 7901.)
(Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Galveston.
Nov. 9, 1921.)
Telegraphs and telephones &wkey;>68(2) — Mental anguish for delayed delivery of interstate message not recoverable.
Damages for mental anguish caused by failure promptly to deliver a telegram are not recoverable where the message was interstate.
Appeal from District Court, Harris County; Ewing Boyd, Judge.
Action by A. V. Jones against the Western Union Telegraph Company. Judgment for. plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
Reversed, and judgment rendered for defendant.
Hume & Hume, of Houston, and Francis R. Stark, of New York City, for appellant.

Opinion:
PLEASANTS, C. J.
Appellee recovered a judgment in the court below against appellant for the sum of $1,000.45 damages for mental anguish caused by the failure of appellant to use proper care to promptly transmit and deliver a telegram sent by appellee from Houston, Tex., to Mannis Dillard at Patterson, La.; the delay in the transmission and delivery of the telegram having prevented appellee from attending her father's funeral.
Under appropriate assignments of error appellant assails the judgment on the ground that, the message having been interstate, damages for mental anguish caused appellee by appellant's failure to promptly deliver it are not recoverable.
This question was decided by this court in favor of appellant's contention in the case of Telegraph Co. v. Kilgore, 220 S. W. 593. Under the authorities cited in the Kilgore Case, we regard fhe question as settled, and we do not care to add anything to what is said in the opinion in that case.
The judgment of the trial court must be reversed, and judgment here rendered for appellant, and it has been so ordered.
Reversed and rendered.