Doherty v. Mississippi Power Co.

This suit was instituted by the appellant, Mrs. George Doherty, against the appellee, Mississippi Power Company, seeking to recover actual and punitive damages for the alleged willful and wanton wrong on the part of the appellee in disconnecting the appellant’s electric lights on the afternoon of June 6, 1935.

The declaration charged that on April 20, 1929, the appellant became a customer of the power company, and whs then required by the rules of the company to deposit the sum of $5 as security for the payment of her bills for electric current, and that appellee delivered to her its…