Hiers v. Southeastern Carolinas Telephone Co.

Fisitburne, Justice.

This was an action in tort to recover damages, actual and punitive, for the wrongful discontinuance of telephone service and removal of a telephone from plaintiff’s place of business in the town of Olar.

The plaintiff charged the defendant, Southeastern Caro-linas Telephone Company, with negligence and willfulness and a conscious disregard of the rights of the plaintiff in the cutting out of his telephone. The answer of the defendant was in effect a general denial. Upon trial, at the close of the testimony offered by the plaintiff, the defendant made a mo tion for a…