Case Name: Western Union Telegraph Company v. J. B. Jenkins
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1917-04-18
Citations: 108 Tex. 374
Docket Number: No. 2500
Parties: Western Union Telegraph Company v. J. B. Jenkins.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 374–374

Head Matter:
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.)

Opinion:
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.