telephone and numberThe instru
ment in the residence from which the appellants had moved was thereupon disconnectedThe exchange operators for the exchange district in which telephone Northwas had the number marked as temporarily disconnectedAccordingly, when persons who desired to communicate with the Litchmans, but did not know of their removal and of their new telephone number, attempted to get in communication with the Litchmans by calling their old number, the exchange operator would give such persons the formal answer that telephone Northwas temporarily disconnected.Appellants assert that the phrase temporarily disconnected signified that they were in arrears in the payment of their telephone rental, and that fact being so reported to clients, patients, and friends of theirs was very humiliating, annoying, and discomfortingThey claimed nothing at the trial on account of losing business or financial loss, but claimed only that they were entitled to substantial damages, although incapable of mathematical computation.In the actions of the telephone company and its officers and employees there was not the slightest element of malice,will, or willfulnessOn the contrary, they seemed desirous of in every way accommodating appellants, who removed their residence through no fault of respondentUnder respondent's general rule and customs, appellants could have been kept on the waiting list for a new listingTo have retained their old telephone number In a different exchange district was Impossible.The undisputed evidence of the telephone company was that the term temporarily disconnected, was used by the operators under Its operating system under four conditions:When alterations were being made at the subscriber's premises;when the subscriber was absent for a vacation or discount oakley sunglasses trip and wished to retain his telephone, but not to use it for that period, and so was given a vacation rate for such period, during which the report f operators to telephone callers would be temporarily disconnected, although the telephone rental had been paid In advance;when there was a change of location, or outside move, cheap oakley sunglasses as It was called by the company, during the period that the telephone was out of service; andon nonpayment oakley sunglasses cheap of billsThe number of telephones that were desioakley sunglasses outlet
gnated temporarily disconnected for the first three causes equaled or exceeded the number so designated for nonpayment of billsAt no time and In no instance were the Litchmans reported temporarily disconnected for nonpayment of telephone rentalThe operators did not know why the teloakley sunglasses sale
ephone number Northwas designated temporarily disconnected.'' When MrLdtchman complained to the manager of the company of the remarks and complaints of the clients, patients, and friends of himself and his wife, that official at once directed the transfer of Incoming calls from the old number to the newThese facts show that there was simple and unintentional negligence on the part of the operators and employees of the company, nothing more.fejFor other cases see same topic and KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests and IndexesThere are cases holding that, for willful injury, gross and wanton negligence, or deliberate omission of duty toward the telephone users, damages may be allowed for inconvenience, discomfort, and annoyance, without other substantial lossBut in nearly all the cited cases there was other substantial pecuniary loss, and the injury was purposely and knowingly caused, or where exemplary damages were permitted, as in SommervllleChesapeake & Potomac Telephone CoFed,AppDO, and Cumberland Telegraph & Telephone Co Eobart,Miss,South,AmStRepIn CarmichaelSouthern Bell Telephone & Telegraph CoNC,SE,LR, ANS, AnnCasB the company wrongfully disconnected the subscriber's telephoneIn HarbaughCitizens' Telephone CoMich,NW, AnnCasE the removal of the telephone was found by the court to be unwarranted according to the



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