Damage without violation of a legal right. See 113 Mo. 308, 35 Am. St. Rep. 706, 18 L. R. A. 339, 2G S. W. 658.
Damage without violation of a legal right. See 113 Mo. 308, 35 Am. St. Rep. 706, 18 L. R. A. 339, 2G S. W. 658.
Loss, hurt or harm without injury in the legal sense, that ls, without such an invasion of rights as is redressible by an action. A loss which does not give rise to an action of damages against the person causing it; as where a person blocks up the windows of a new house overlooking his land or injures a person's trade by setting up an establishment of the same kind in the neighborhood. Broom, Com. Law, 75; Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 164, 2 L. Ed. 60; West Virginia Transp. Co. v. Standard Oil Co., 50 W. Va. 611, 40 S. E. 591, 56 L. R. A. 804, 88 Am. St. Rep. 895; Irwin v. Askew, 74 Ga. 581; Chase v. Silverstone, 62 Me. 175, 16 Am. Rep. 419; Lumber Co. v. U. S., 69 Fed. 326, 16 C. C. A. 460.