Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1914

Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Wilson

Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Arkansas · Decided October 5, 1914 · Smith
115 Ark. 259; 170 S.W. 993; 1914 Ark. LEXIS 98

Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Wilson

Opinion of the Court

Smith, J.,

(after stating the facts). The instruction above set out was the only instruction given by the court defining the conditions under which appellee might recover, and it mu-st, therefore, necessarily be true that the jury’s verdict was based upon this instruction.

There was no evidence to the effect that there was telephone 'connection between the telegraph office and the sanitarium, and the instruction was, therefore, abstract arid. prejudicial, and the action of the court in giving it. was error, which calls for the reversal of the case. Westmoreland v. Plant, 89 Ark. 147. The judgment is, therefore, reversed, and the cause will be remanded for a new trial.

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