Dallas Telephone Co. v. Oak Cliff Transfer & Storage Co.

(after stating the facts as above). The court’s charge on the measure of damages authorized the jury, in estimating the compensation allowable to appellees, to “take into consideration inconvenience, or annoyance, if any, which the plaintiff may have suffered, as well as loss of business.” Therefore the plaintiff was permitted to recover accordingly for “inconvenience or annoyance” suffered, in addition to the pecuniary loss sustained in business ways, in consequence of the alleged wrongful partial breach of the contract of telephone service. The charge has the effect either to allow a double…