Wood v. Mississippi Power Co.

This case is before us on appeal by Dr. James P. Wood, plaintiff, from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Greene County rendered in favor of the Mississippi Power Company and Guy Walker, an employee of Sidney L. Rag-land, an independent contractor, defendants, in an action for the statutory penalties for the wrongful cutting of trees on the plaintiff’s land situated in Greene County.

The record shows that the Mississippi Power Company is a corporation engaged in the business of generating, transmitting, distributing and selling electric power and as such has power to condemn property by…