MacCa v. General Telephone Co. of Northwest, Inc.

The defendant telephone company in its Beaver-ton, Oregon, directory listed an erroneous “after hours” telephone number for a floral shop in an advertisement in the yellow pages. The number listed actually belonged to plaintiff and her husband, who were self-employed tailors. The plaintiff filed an action seeking damages for emotional distress resulting from answering telephone calls “at all hours of the night.” A jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $1,000 and defendant appeals from the judgment.

The defendant urges several assignments of error based on the court’s overruling a demurrer,…