Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Green

Citations

• 121 Miss. 260
• 83 So. 403

Syllabus

<p>Telegbaphs & Telephones. Punitive damages not allowed where the act is neither authorized or ratified.</p> <p>Neither under the rule of the federal court nor the rule in the state of Louisiana is the master liable in punitive damages because of a wrong committed by a servant, unless the master either authorized or ratified its commission.</p>