DeSalme v. Union Electric Light & Power Co.

This is an action for the damages sustained by plaintiffs by reason of defendant's alleged wrongful discontinuance of electric service to them. The verdict of the jury was for plaintiff's for actual damages of $2,475 and punitive damages of $1; and from the judgment rendered in conformity therewith, defendant's appeal to this court has been perfected in the usual course.

Plaintiffs are the owners of a tract of land located at the junction of Saline and Gravois roads in St. Louis county, the same being improved by a frame house, a garage, and a shed originally used as a blacksmith shop. Since…