Ford v. Vicksburg Waterworks Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county, Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. Suit by the Vicksburg Waterworks Company against E. Ford. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The first and principal error assigned and urged here is that the lower court erred in awarding and adjudging to the plaintiff below the admitted and confessed' penalty or usurious damages of ten per centum on each and all of the debit items or prices of the account sued on.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Warren county, Hon. H. C. Mounger, Judge. Suit by the Vicksburg Waterworks Company against E. Ford. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The first and principal error assigned and urged here is that the lower court erred in awarding and adjudging to the plaintiff below the admitted and confessed' penalty or usurious damages of ten per centum on each and all of the debit items or prices of the account sued on. It boldly but frankly appears undenied and confessed in the record that the rules, regulations and practice of the appellee water…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
Appellee is a waterworks company, eng’aged in supplying water to the citizens of the city of Vicksburg, and one of the rules adopted by it for the conduct of its business provides that all water bills are payable at the office of the company on the 1st day of the month following that in which the service is rendered and, if not paid on or before the tenth day thereafter, ten per cent of the amount thereof will be added thereto. Appellant being-in arrears in his account with appellee for water furnished him, this suit was instituted to enforce the payment thereof.
His complaint here is that the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Vicksburg v. Vicksburg Waterworks Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1907
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- Carmichael v. City of GreenvilleMississippi Supreme Court · 1916