Hickey v. Philadelphia Electric Co.

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

The plaintiff sued the defendant in assumpsit to recover $60, which he averred defendant had unlawfully and unjustly required him to pay before it would resume supplying him with electricity. In his statement of claim he averred that defendant’s agents had previously cut the electric wires leading into his premises, shut off the electrical current and removed the meter because, they alleged, the meter had been tampered with. Said charge of $60 had been imposed by defendant to reimburse itself for the damage alleged to have been done it by the tampering with said meter,…