| Show GIVES ODD phona idhona DECISION merchant who sues sue recipient ent of message loses in berlin court in berlin a legal decision was recently rendered which is of interest to every business man in every country who uses a telephone A merchant one day sent an order by telephone to a firm and as the order was not carried out to ills his satisfaction is he sued for damages claiming that the person at the other end ouie telephone to whom he had g given ivan alyis is oder was responsible for the loss the court however decided against hini him and refused to award any damages on oil the ground that as a rule the person who goes first to a telephone and asks to be put in connection with another person must boar bear the consequences of any loss which may be the result of s uch such a conversation the court admitted that the person to whom an all order might be sent in this way might not catch all the words or might fall fail to understand their full import but it insisted that it would be contrary to all the principles of law to hold him responsible on that account |
