Salem-Fairfield Telephone Assn. v. McMahan
Oregon Supreme Court
From Marion: 'William Galloway, Judge. Statement by Mr. Chief Justice Mooee. Tbis is a suit by tbe Salem-Fairfield Telephone Association, a corporation, against L. H. McMahan, in which defendant had a decree enjoining the adding of other customers to the line or from interfering therewith, and the plaintiff appeals. Affirmed and remanded for further proceedings.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Moore.
It appears from a transcript of the testimony that in the year 1898 a local telephone line was constructed northerly along a county road from Salem about ten miles by W. H. Egan and others. With their consent a branch line, known as telephone line No. 6, was built from their line northwesterly beside a public highway by A. M. La Follette, L. F. Townsend and Oliver Beers, who installed and used phones in their respective farmhouses. Several other telephone lines were also built in the same manner and connected with the line constructed by Egan and others. As…
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