Carpenter v. Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp.

THE COURT.

This is an appeal from a judgment for defendant upon a verdict of the jury directed by the court, *371and an attempted appeal from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

The action is one in which plaintiffs seek damages, both general and punitive, for the alleged wrongful, unlawful and malicious discontinuance of electrical service at plaintiffs’ home, which theretofore had been supplied by defendant.

From the evidence adduced at the trial, which consumed four days, it appears that early in 1934 plaintiffs questioned the truth of defendant’s monthly statement on account of…