Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Harris
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Crisp. City court of Americus. February 11, 1904.
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
Where a traveling salesman, whose compensation is based on commissions on such orders, secured, by him, as his employer approves, shipped his trunks of samples over the line of a common carrier, and they were unreasonably delayed, he can not, in a suit for breach of the contract *708to convey, recover as damages for such delay the profits from orders which, tested by past experience, he would have secured during the period he was without his trunks. Such damages are too remote and speculative, grow out of an enterprise collateral to the contract to ship the trunks, and are not such as the parties…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Georgia Railroad v. HaydenSupreme Court of Georgia · 1883
3Cited by8 opinions
- American Agricultural Chemical Co. v. RhodesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1913
- Southwestern Railroad v. VellinesCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1914
- Hoffman v. Louis L. Battey PostCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1946
- Smalls v. BrennanCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1913
- Chickamauga Manufacturing Co. v. Augusta Grocery Co.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1919
3 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.