Beaupré v. Pacific & Atlantic Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Plaintiffs brought this action in the court of common pleas for Ramsey county to recover the sum of $250, with interest from July 15, 1870, being the damages alleged to have been sustained by them in consequence of the defendant’s negligent delay in transmitting a message.
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Plaintiffs brought this action in the court of common pleas for Ramsey county to recover the sum of $250, with interest from July 15, 1870, being the damages alleged to have been sustained by them in consequence of the defendant’s negligent delay in transmitting a message. The action was referred to R. B. Galusha, Esq., who found the following facts, which were alleged in the complaint: The plaintiffs, at all the times hereinafter mentioned were, and now are, partners under the firm name of Beaupré & Kelly, and the defendant was and is a corporation, etc., engaged in the business of…
1Opinion of the CourtYoung, J.
The plaintiffs’ right to recover the damages allowed them by the court below, must be tried by the well established rule that ! £ the damages which a party to a contract ought to recover in respect of a breach of it by the other, are such as arise naturally from the breach itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been co?itemplated by the parties, when making the contract, as the probable result of the breach.” Hadley v. Baxendale, 9 Exch. 341; Squire v. W. U. Tel. Co., 98 Mass. 232; True v. Internal. Tel. Co., 60 Maine, 9; Paine v. Sherwood, 19 Minn. 315, 324. The damages must,…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Griffin v. . ColverNew York Court of Appeals · 1858
- Baldwin v. . the United States Telegraph Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1871
- United States Telegraph Co. v. GildersleveCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1868
- Squire v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Parks v. Alta Cal. Tel. Co.California Supreme Court · 1859
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3Cited by34 opinions
- Daughtery v. American Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1883
- Despatch Oven Co. v. RauenhorstSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1949
- Williams v. Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. WaySupreme Court of Alabama · 1887
- Elks v. . Insurance CoSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1912
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