Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Baker

Citations

• 85 Miss. 486

Syllabus

<p>Damages. Exemplary. When not recoverable.</p> <p>A telephone company is not subjected, to liability for exemplary damages by the acts of its manager in removing the telephone from the residence of a patron and requiring him, in sending long-distance messages, to prepay charges and send them from the exchange, when such patron, on the claim of poor service, had refused to pay full rental for his residence telephone, in the absence of evidence of wanton, oppressive, insulting, or willful conduct on the part of the manager.</p>