Mississippi Power Co. v. Byrd

Appellee brought this action against appellant in the circuit court of Pearl River county for damages which he claimed to have suffered because appellant illegally deprived him of the electric current which it had furnished him to light his dwelling. Appellee sued for both actual and punitive damages. The trial resulted in a judgment and verdict for appellee in the sum of five hundred dollars; and from that judgment appellant prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant is a public service corporation, engaged in furnishing to the public in the town of Poplarville, and the vicinity thereof, electric…