Chambers v. Spruce Lighting Co.
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Boone County. Action by Emma J. Chambers and others against the Spruce Lighting Company. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge :
The Spruce Lighting Company, successor of the Spruce Fork Company, corporations chartered and organized under the law of this state, and the Boone County Coal Corporation, an affiliated company, on May li, 1914 jointly owned a large boundary of coal lands located in Boone County and operated it through lessees to whom defendant furnished light and power from its electric light plant completed in June 1912 about three miles above Clothier where' plaintiffs were engaged in conducting a hotel on property owned by them. Having more current than was necessary to supply its lessees,…
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