94 Ga. 202 | Ga. | 1894
Under the facts in this case, which will be found set ■out in the official report, the damages were too remote .and uncertain to be the basis of a recovery for delay in delivering the telegram and for exposure of its contents to the plaintiff’s customer before delivery. The damages did not result from any loss dependent on the state of his contract with the customer as the contract actually existed at the time of the default by the telegraph company. Pitner, the customer, was to take from Watson two gins of the Brown Cotton Gin Company of New London, Conn. Pitner had waited for some time for the gins to be delivered to him, but had been disappointed. When the telegram was disclosed