Smith v. Pickwick Electric Cooperative

We have granted certiorari in this case in response to petitions therefor filed by all parties to this litigation and the matter has been fully presented in oral argument.

The original bill was filed on the 15th day of September, 1958 by R. L. Smith, Jr. and thereafter, by leave of the Court, the same was amended so as to include his wife, Betty Jo Smith, as a complainant against Pickwick Electric Cooperative, a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of Chapter 176 of the Public Acts of 1937 the “Electric Cooperative Law” and now carried in T.C.A. 65-2501 et seq.

One of the…