Chapman v. Western Union Telegraph Co.

Supreme Court of Georgia · Decided 1892-03-20

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Lumpkin, Justice. The exact question, briefly stated, is whether a person to whom a telegraphic message announcing the dying condition of a brother was sent, but by gross negligence of the company was not delivered with due promptness, so that he was unable to reach the brother’s bedside before death transpired, can recover substantial *764 damages for the mental suffe…

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