Mississippi Supreme Court October 15, 1910 (Vicksburg Waterworks Co. v. Dutton)

Anderson, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Dutton, the appellee, sued the appellant, the Vicksburg Waterworks Company, a public service corporation, engaged in supplying water to the inhabitants of the city of Vicksburg, for willfully and unlawfully disconnecting his premises from, appellant’s water mains, and recovered judgment for actual and punitive damages in the *213sum of five