Alabama Power Co. v. Jones

Plaintiff, a resident of Cordova, Ala., was a customer of defendant power company, using electric lights in her home. On the evening of July 1,1929, at about 5:30 or 6 o’clock, her lights were cut off by defendant’s local manager, M. J. Voight, and on the 16th following, this suit was brought to recover damages therefor, resulting in a verdict and judgment for $916.60, from which defendant prosecutes this appeal.

Plaintiff substituted kerosene lamps, and compensatory damages sought embraced the expense, inconvenience, and annoyance from the use of such lamps for a period of fifteen days, and…