Washington & Old Dominion Railway v. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Loudoun county, in an action of assumpsit. Judgment for -the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error. The opinion states the case.
1DissentSims, J.
The following statement will disclose the reasons which force me to dissent from the majority opinion in this case:
What are Consequential Damages?
They are indirect damages, as distinguished from direct damages. 1 Sutherland on Dam. (3rd ed.), secs. 14, 15; 1 Sedgwick on Dam. (9th ed.), sec. 111; Anderson’s Dict. Law, p. 307; Black’s Law Dict. (2nd ed.), p. 314; 5 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law, p. 6; Hale on Dam. (1896), p. 39.
Direct damages are the result of losses which proceed immediately (not necessarily in time, but causatively) from wrongful conduct, without the intervention of any intermediate…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Burruss v. HinesSupreme Court of Virginia · 1897
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