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CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE

Such damage, loss, or injury as does not flow directly and immediately from the act of the party, but only from some of the consequences or results of such act Swain v. Copper Co., Ill Tenn. 430, 78 S. W. 93; Pearson v. Spartanburg County, 51 S. C. 48Q, 29 S. E. 193. The term “consequential damage” means sometimes damage which is so remote as not to be actionable; sometimes damage which, though somewhat remote, is actionable; or damage which, though actionable, does not follow Immediately, in point of time, upon the doing of the act complained of. Eaton v. Railroad Co., 51 N. H. 504, 12 Am. Rep. 147.

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