Supreme Court of North Carolina December 4, 1912 (Raiford v. Western Union Telegraph Co.)

Clare, 0. J.

Tbis is an action for recovery of mental anguish for failure to deliver a message sent from Bonifay, Fla., to Wade, N. C. Tbe answer admitted tbe prompt receipt of tbe message at Wade. Tbe operator testified tbat be placed tbe telegram in a stamped envelope and deposited it in tbe mail box, directed to tbe sendee, wbo lived two miles out, on tbe E. F. D. route.