Supreme Court of South Carolina March 1, 1906 (Willis v. Western Union Tel. Co.)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Woods.

This action is for damages, actual and punitive, on account of mental anguish caused by the failure to transmit and deliver a telegram. There was a former appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff, in which a new trial was ordered — 69 S. C., 531. Upon the second trial plaintiff again recovered a verdict and defendant appeals.