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HIERS v. SOUTHEASTERN CARO. TELEPHONE CO.

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216 S.C. 437 (1950)

58 S.E.2d 692

HIERS v. SOUTHEASTERN CAROLINAS TELEPHONE CO.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

March 31, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Fred L. Hiers, of Bamberg, for Appellant.

Messrs. Warren and Warren, of Hampton, and Kearse and Ness, of Bamberg, for Respondent.

March 31, 1950.

FISHBURNE, Justice.

This was an action in tort to recover damages, actual and punitive, for the wrongful discontinuance of telephone service and removal of a telephone from plaintiff's place of business in the town of Olar.

The plaintiff charged the defendant, Southeastern Carolinas Telephone Company, with negligence and willfulness and a conscious disregard of the rights of the plaintiff in the cutting out of his telephone. The answer...

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