American Electrical Cases (cited Am Electl. Cas.): Being a Collection of All the Important Cases (excepting Patent Cases) Decided in the State and Federal Courts of the United States from 1873 [to 1908] on Subjects Relating to the Telegraph, the Telephone, Electric Light and Power, Electric Railway, and All Other Practical Uses of Electricity, with Annotations, Том 1William Weeks Morrill M. Bender, 1894 |
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affirmed agent alleged amount answer appellant appellee authority averred Barnesville blank Brush Electric cause charge Chicago cited claim commerce common carriers complaint Constitution contributory negligence corporation defendant defendant's delay demurrer dispatch duty easement electric electric telegraph company eminent domain erect error evidence facts failure to transmit graph company gross negligence held Indiana injury judgment jury liability limit line of telegraph loss measure of damages mistake non-delivery Ohio Ohio ex rel operator opinion owner paid pany party person plaintiff plaintiff in error poles purpose question railroad company reasonable received recover regulations responsible rule sage sender sending the message sent statute statutory penalty stipulation street Supreme Court sustained tele telegram telegraph line Telephone Company tion trans trial Union Telegraph Co Union Telegraph Company unrepeated messages verdict W. U. Tel Western Union Telegraph wires York
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Страница 377 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Страница 499 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally — ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself...
Страница 770 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for nondelivery, of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Страница 592 - But, on the other hand, if these special circumstances were wholly unknown to the party breaking the contract, he, at the most, could only be supposed to have had in his contemplation the amount of injury which would arise generally, and in the great multitude of cases not affected by any special circumstances, from such a breach of contract.
Страница 151 - These contracts are not articles of commerce in any proper meaning of the word. They are not subjects of trade and barter offered in the market as something having an existence and value independent of the parties to them. They are not commodities to be shipped or forwarded from one State to another, and then put up for sale.
Страница 754 - An Act to aid in the Construction of Telegraph Lines, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military and other purposes...
Страница 700 - They extend from the horse with its rider to the stage coach, from the sailing vessel to the steamboat, from the coach and the steamboat to the railroad, and from the railroad to the telegraph, as these new agencies are successively brought into use to meet the demands of increasing population and wealth. They were intended for the government of the business to which they relate, at all times and under all circumstances.
Страница 252 - ... the railroad to the telegraph, as these new agencies are successively brought into use to meet the demands of increasing population and wealth. They were intended for the government of the business to which they relate, at all times and under all circumstances. As they were intrusted to the general government for the good of the nation, it is not only the right, but the duty, of Congress to see to it that intercourse among the States and the transmission of intelligence are not obstructed or...
Страница 362 - Now, if the special circumstances under which the contract was actually made were communicated by the plaintiffs to the defendants, and thus known to both parties, the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Страница 373 - A telegraph company occupies the same relation to commerce as a carrier of messages, that a railroad company does as a carrier of goods.