Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Watson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Hutchins. Oconee superior court. July term, 1893. Watson sued the telegraph company for damages, and obtained a verdict for $180. Defendant moved for a new trial, which was granted unless plain tiff would write off' all in excess of $129.90. This was done.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Hutchins. Oconee superior court. July term, 1893. Watson sued the telegraph company for damages, and obtained a verdict for $180. Defendant moved for a new trial, which was granted unless plain tiff would write off' all in excess of $129.90. This was done. Watson testified: Am agent of the Brown Cotton O-in Company of New London, Conn., and as such sold to C. L. Pitner two seventy-saw gins, feeders and condensers, about the last of'July or first of August, 1892, for $595. My commission on the sale would have been $238. I told Pitner the gins had been shipped,…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
Under the facts in this case, which will be found set ■out in the official report, the damages were too remote .and uncertain to be the basis of a recovery for delay in delivering the telegram and for exposure of its contents to the plaintiff’s customer before delivery. The damages did not result from any loss dependent on the state of his contract with the customer as the contract actually existed at the time of the default by the telegraph company. Pitner, the customer, was to take from Watson two gins of the Brown Cotton Gin Company of New London, Conn. Pitner had waited…
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