Brown v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Plaintiff in error was plaintiff below. Her claim in this action is based upon a single transaction or occurrence, the substance of which, as alleged in the complaint, is that she placed an advertisement in the classified section of defendant’s telephone directory; that said advertisement as published differed in wording from that given to defendant over the telephone, and that plaintiff was damaged thereby. In the amended complaint this single occurrence was set out in accordance with its contended legal consequences in three separate causes of action, the first predicated- on negligence,…