Court Opinion

ID: 9832182
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:41:27.124686+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:43.460818
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
We were not unmindful of the rule that plaintiff was entitled at all events to judgment for the sum of 60 cents paid to defendant for sending the telegram, but the case was remanded in order to give plaintiff the right to that relief and other actual damages he might be able to prove on another trial, especially in view of the finding conclusively established by the evidence that defendant was guilty of negligence in sending and delivering the telegram in a mutilated form. But we. believe that actual damages in the sum of only 60 cents would not warrant the award of exemplary damages, and therefore overrule appellee’s prayer for judgment by this court, reforming the judgment of the trial court so as to limit the recovery for actual damages to 60 cents and affirming the award for exemplary damages.
Appellee’s motion for rehearing is overruled. And appellant’s motion for a judgment by this court, denying plaintiff a recovery for any amount, is likewise overruled.