Barrett v. Broad River Power Company

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Beease.

Action, or, more properly, several actions on tort, growing out of the disconnection and discontinuance of the plaintiff’s electric light service by the defendant. The trial was in the Court of Common Pleas for Richland County, before Plon. J. K. Plenry, presiding Judge, and a jury. From a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, for both actual and punitive damages, the defendant appealed to this Court.

The plaintiff instituted four separate suits against the defendant, in the same Court, and about the same time. Each charged torts,…