Cumberland Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Hobart

Citations

• 89 Miss. 252
• 42 So. 349

Syllabus

<p>1. Telephone Companies. Services.' Duty to furnish. Payment of arrears. Reinstatement.</p> <p>If a telephone company cuts out a subscriber for failure to- pay the charges for his telephone, it is obliged to reinstate him upon tender of the sum properly due, and cannot demand as a condition -of reinstatement that -he pay a sum due the company by his wife on another contract.</p> <p>2. Same. Damages.</p> <p>Where a telephone company wrongfully cuts out a subscriber and refuses to reinstate him, it is liable not only for actual damages, but for inconvenience and annoyance occasioned by being without the use of a telephone.</p> <p>3. Same. Sumí not excessive.</p> <p>In such ease a verdict and judgment for one hundred and fifty dollars in plaintiff’s favor is not excessive.</p>