Stein v. Diamond State Telephone Co.

Harrington, J.,

charging the jury:

The defendant company admits that it owed a duty to the plaintiff to correctly list its name, occupation and telephone number in its February and August directories of 1927, and that it negligently violated that duty. Because of that fact, it, also, admits that your verdict must be for the plaintiff for such compensatory damages as naturally and reasonably follow from the negligent acts or omissions committed by it.

The plaintiff claims, however, that he is not only entitled to recover such damages as have been specifically proved by him, but, also, such…