Court Opinion

ID: 9811975
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 22:34:50.639315+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:23:32.246197
License: Public Domain

*38Davis, J.,
dissenting. The plaintiff sent a message and received a reply thereto. By reason of the gross and inexcusable negligence of the defendant, the message was not delivered as it was given for transmission, in consequence of which, a reply'was made to, and received by, the plaintiff, upon which he acted, and upon which he had a right to act, because he had a right to assume that the message, to which it was a response, had been correctly sent. Acting upon the reply received to the message so transmitted, he purchased and sent stock to Richmond, which, in consequence, and as a direct consequence, of the misunderstanding caused by the gross negligence of the defeudant, was there attached, and the plaintiff was put to necessary and unavoidable cost, expense, and loss, for which, (there being gross negligence found) I think, the defendant was liable. By the inexcusable negligence of the defendant, the plaintiff has been made to incur expense and loss, which he could, by no possible diligence, prevent, and for which, I think, the defendant ought to answer. It was the direct and unavoidable, not the speculative or remote, result of the negligence.
I cannot concur in the view taken of the authorities cited, as applied to this case.