Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Carless
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of city of Norfolk, in a proceeding by motion for a judgment for damages. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. This is an action in tort by notice of motion by the defendant in error, Miss J. B. Carless, against the plaintiff in error to recover damages for injury occasioned her by a wrongful suspension of telephone service.
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court.
The ultimate question, and that on which the decision must turn, which is presented for our determination by the assignments of error, is the following:
[1] 1. Is the plaintiff, in an action of tort such as this, entitled to recover compensatory damages for physical hardship of exposure to cold weather and for inconvenience and annoyance in the conduct of her calling as a nurse ánd in her affairs generally, the evidence failing to affirmatively show any actual pecuniary loss or damage of the plaintiff…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Allison v. ChandlerMichigan Supreme Court · 1863
- Carmichael v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1911
- Connelly v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1902
- Cumberland Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. HobartMississippi Supreme Court · 1906
- Sommerville v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1919
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Harless v. First National Bank in FairmontWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1982
- Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. O'NEALSupreme Court of Virginia · 1982
- Powers v. CALVERT FIRE INS. CO.Supreme Court of South Carolina · 1950
- Lockheed Information Management Systems Co. v. Maximus, Inc.Supreme Court of Virginia · 2000
- Gould v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.Utah Supreme Court · 1957
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