EMBRY, Justice.
The principal issue on this appeal is whether the trial court's oral instruction to the jury, was erroneous in requiring the jury to first find compensatory damages in order to award punitive damages.
Lizzie Hadley Skipper, plaintiff below, appeals from a judgment on a jury verdict that denied damages claimed of South Central Bell Telephone Company, defendant below, for wrongfully terminating her telephone service.
We affirm.
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