Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Paine

Citations

• 94 Miss. 883
• 48 So. 229

Syllabus

<p>Punitive Damages. Telephone company. Denying service</p> <p>Where a telephone company, in an effort to obey the order of a supervising state commission, abolishing free county telephone service and fixing charges, forwarded a general circular to the managers of its exchanges in the state directing a compliance with the order, and the manager of an exchange, not knowing that the franchise of the company in his city required it to extend such services free to its patrons there, courteously denied plaintiff free county service, until his attention was called to the franchise when he at once communicated with his company and promptly resumed the free service, the company is not liable to plaintiff for punitive damages because of such denial..</p>