McDONALD v. MISSISSIPPI POWER CO.

No. 97-CA-01336-SCT.

732 So.2d 893 (1999)

Otis G. McDONALD, Flora McDonald, Robert Mordica, Von Kyle Modica, Robert R. Royals, Judy W. Royals, Vencie Pruitt, Ruthie Mae Pruitt, W.D. Young, William Paul Rowell, Bertie Flowers, Sarah E. Life, Mrs. A.W. Livingston, David Livingston, Elizabeth D. Livingston, Audrey McClellan, Tom McClellan, Cecil McClellan, Jr., E.H. Morgan, John A. Ashley, Jane Carol Ashley, Edna M. Shepard, Janis M. Sumrall, James Thigpen, Katheryn Wheeler, Texana McFarland, Sam Simmons, Helen Naylor, Nancy Carter, Corrine Simmons, Willie Mae Raines, Herman Deas, Ira W. Stringer, Onita S. Stringer, Robert E. Bell, Sr., Charles Henry Bell, Lovella Henry, Martha C. Henry, Bobby Ray Kidd, Jonie Kidd, James C. McKibbon, Anna Trotter, Augustus F. Ball, Connie Ball, Eula Hickson, Leland L. Stokes, Diane R. Stokes, Michael R. Stokes, And Kimberle D. Stokes v. MISSISSIPPI POWER COMPANY, A Mississippi Corporation and Southern Company, A Delaware Corporation.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied April 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Deakle, Hattiesburg, John Michael Sims, Eugene C. Thach, Jr., Heidelberg, William R. Couch, Curtis R. Hussey, Hattiesburg, Attorneys for Appellants.

S. Robert Hammond, Jr., Hattiesburg, Richard L. Yoder, Laurel, H.R. Wilder, Gulfport, Donovan McComb, Laurel, Attorneys for Appellees.

Before PRATHER, C.J., and McRAE and WALLER, JJ.


WALLER, Justice, for the Court:

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

¶ 1. Otis G. McDonald, et al. appeals from the entry of an order of the Chancery Court of the First Judicial District of Jasper County granting summary judgment to Mississippi Power Company. McDonald raises the following issues on appeal.

I. WHETHER THE COURT BELOW ERRED IN HOLDING THAT MISSISSIPPI POWER IS NOT REQUIRED TO ESTABLISH THAT FIBER OPTIC CABLE IS NECESSARY FOR THE...

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