Porter Coal Co. v. Davis

FOSTER, Justice.

Plaintiff claims and recovered compensatory and punitive damages against appellant on a claim that defendant’s servants, duly authorized, unlawfully and maliciously prevented plaintiff from going upon defendant’s premises to inspect or check the weighing of coal mined in defendant’s mines after plaintiff had been selected by the miners, or a majority of them, to do so, and after he had made an agreement to that effect with them.

Appellee seems to insist that he has a cause of action regardless of section 1710, Code, on the theory that his contracted rights were wrongfully and…