(a) All telegraph companies doing business in this state shall be liable in damages for mental anguish or suffering even in the absence of bodily injury or pecuniary loss for negligence in receiving, transmitting, or delivering messages.
(b) In all actions under this section, the jury may award such damages as it concludes resulted from the negligence of the telegraph company.
(c) Nothing contained in this section shall abridge the rights and remedies now provided by law against telegraph companies, and the rights and remedies provided for by this section shall be in addition to those now existing.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries
Subtitle 1 - Public Utilities And Carriers
Chapter 17 - Telephone and Telegraph Companies
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 23-17-101. Right to construct, operate, and maintain lines — Damages for occupation of property
§ 23-17-102. Railroads may operate telegraphs and telephones — Authority
§ 23-17-103. Condemnation proceedings upon failure to secure right-of-way
§ 23-17-104. Right of entry for construction — Liability for damages
§ 23-17-105. Contract for exclusive privileges prohibited
§ 23-17-106. Priority of dispatch of messages — Confidentiality
§ 23-17-107. Interception of message — Injuring equipment — Penalty
§ 23-17-108. Refusal to transmit message — Penalty
§ 23-17-110. Telegraph companies — Schedule of rates
§ 23-17-112. Damages for mental anguish
§ 23-17-113. Telephone service to be supplied without discrimination — Complaint to commission
§ 23-17-116. Fee for initiation of residential telephone service to be payable in installments
§ 23-17-119. Surcharges to provide telecommunications for deaf and hearing impaired — Definitions
§ 23-17-120. Establishment of calling plans
§ 23-17-121. Agreements for special terminating access rates or plans