Hays v. Western Union Tel. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Aldrich, J., Greenwood, March, 1903. Action by R. M. Hays & Bro-. against Western Union Telegraph Co. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. cite: Actual loss based upon changes in market is rule of damages: 41 la., 458; 44 N. Y., 263; Joyce on Dam., sec. 1411. And for error in. transmission the measure is increase of loss: 25 Ency., 1 ed., S50; 67 la., 631; 124 U. S., 444. Expected profits from resale too remote: 1 Col., 230; 33 Wis., 558; 124 U. S., 444;…
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Before Aldrich, J., Greenwood, March, 1903. Action by R. M. Hays & Bro-. against Western Union Telegraph Co. From judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals. cite: Actual loss based upon changes in market is rule of damages: 41 la., 458; 44 N. Y., 263; Joyce on Dam., sec. 1411. And for error in. transmission the measure is increase of loss: 25 Ency., 1 ed., S50; 67 la., 631; 124 U. S., 444. Expected profits from resale too remote: 1 Col., 230; 33 Wis., 558; 124 U. S., 444; 98 Mass., 232; 25 Ency., 848; 81 La., 285; 100 N. C., 3001; 2 Joyce on Dam., sec. 1410 ; 19 S. C., 228; 35 L. R. A., 553;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Woods.
The plaintiffs, R. M. Hays & Brother, were dealers in horses and mules at Greenwood, S. C. A. C. Hays, the junior partner, was sent to the St. Eouis stock market with the understanding that he should purchase only after he had telegraphed prices and received instructions from his senior, R. M. Hays. On January 1, 1901, A. C. Hays delivered to the defendant, Western Union Telegraph Company, in St. Louis, for transmission to R. M. Hays at Greenwood a telegram in these words: “Fourteen half hands, ninety-five; fifteen hands, one hundred…
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