Cumberland Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Poston

The defendant company was sued before a Justice of the Peace for damages for cutting and disfiguring the plaintiff’s ornamental holly trees upon a residence lot near Memphis. There was a judgment before the Justice of the Peace for the plaintiffs for $400, and an appeal to the Second Circuit Court, where there was a trial before the Judge and a jury, , and a verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $300, and the defendant company has appealed, and assigned errors.

The company had been for several years operating a telephone line in front of plaintiffs’ premises. Desiring to change the…