Rush v. Masonic Temple Ass'n
Rush v. Masonic Temple Ass'n
Opinion of the Court
— Conceding, without deciding, that there was an implied obligation to furnish the defendant elevator accommodations and to keep his rooms properly heated, and that there was an occasional failure to fully comply with this implied obligation, yet the defendant’s evidence as to the damages he sustained is so uncertain, speculative, and conjectural that little or no data were furtdshed the trial court as a basis for ascertaining same. There was no proof of the difference in the value of the apartments, properly heated and with proper elevator sendee, and the condition in whi ch the plaintiff permitted them to be during the defendant’s occupancy. There were a few days when patients had to ascend the stairway to reach the defendant’s offices, but this fact may not have entailed any financial loss to the defendant. It was also shown that a few would-be patients failed to be treated by him on certain days, because the elevater was not running, or because the rooms were not properly heated; but there is no proof that they were not at other times treated by the defendant, or that he incurred any fixed financial loss on those occasions. It is true the defendant estimated that he had sustained the average loss of over on hour per day; but there is nothing to show what he lost by not working these hours, or that he would have been profitably engaged all of this time, had the elevator been running and
Affirmed.
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