McLeod v. Pacific Telephone Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Coos: Lawrence T. Harris, Judge. This is an action by Frances McLeod against the Pacific Telephone Company. From a judgment granting a nonsuit, plaintiff appeals. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Bean. This is an action to recover damages for a failure of defendant company to notify plaintiff that she was wanted at one of its offices to answer a long-distance call. Plaintiff resides at Marshfield, and is a stenographer by profession.
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From Coos: Lawrence T. Harris, Judge. This is an action by Frances McLeod against the Pacific Telephone Company. From a judgment granting a nonsuit, plaintiff appeals. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Bean. This is an action to recover damages for a failure of defendant company to notify plaintiff that she was wanted at one of its offices to answer a long-distance call. Plaintiff resides at Marshfield, and is a stenographer by profession. Defendant owns and operates a public telephone line between Port Orford and Marsh-field, a distance of 50 or 60 miles. In August, 1903, Judge Hamilton of the…
1Opinion
On Petition for Rehearing.
2Opinion of the CourtJustice Eakin
The motion for rehearing does not raise any new or different questions from those submitted at the original argument and passed upon by the court, but it questions the correctness of the conclusions reached.'
4. The point emphasized by the motion is that the company should not be held liable in damages to the addressee for negligence in the transmission or delivery of a message, unless the addresee was the primary beneficiary therein. In considering the liability of telephone companies, we are almost exclusively confined for precedents, to decisions relating to…
3Cases cited19 opinions
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. CoffinTexas Supreme Court · 1895
- Central Union Telephone Co. v. State ex rel. FalleyIndiana Supreme Court · 1889
- Smith v. Western Union Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1885
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. KirkpatrickTexas Supreme Court · 1890
- Western Union Telegraph Co. v. SchriverCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1905
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