Cumberland Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Hobart
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Warren county. TIon. Joitn N. Bush, Judge. Hobart, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the telephone company, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s- favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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From the circuit court of Warren county. TIon. Joitn N. Bush, Judge. Hobart, the appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the telephone company, the appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s- favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. Hobart sued the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company .for damages resulting from its discontinuance to him of telephone service, plaintiff charging that the defendant wrongfully denied him the right of having a telephone in his dwelling house; that although by inadvertence he had been temporarily delinquent in paying rent…
1Opinion of the CourtMayes, J.
Hobart sued the Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone Company for the sum of $2,000 damages- for wrongfully cutting-out his telephone. The facts in the case are as follows: Hobart resided about a mile and a half from Vicksburg, on what is known as the “Warrenton Road.” He had entered into a contract for a telephone to be put into his residence some years previous to the date at which this suit was brought, and subsequently, his wife having a store, he saw the manager of the- telephone company, and asked him to place a telephone in this store, *257which, the company did. At the time the company’s…
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