Alabama Power Co. v. Harmon

This is an appeal by Alabama Power Company from a judgment of $75,000.00 rendered in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Bessemer Division, in favor of plaintiff-appellee, Morris Eugene Harmon. That judgment was based on a jury verdict.

This litigation arose from the following facts:

In April 1980, plaintiff went to defendant's Bessemer office and requested that defendant supply electricity to a house trailer plaintiff intended to move onto land that he owned.

Plaintiff alleged that defendant's employee, Ms. Donelly, told him that electrical power could not be supplied to the trailer until…