City of Audubon v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Although this case turns on a question of ■ fact, we find it neither necessary nor desirable to enter into a detailed narration of the testimony. The years that have elapsed since appellee’s predecessors in interest ventured into the then new field of the telephone business, have dimmed thp recollection of the witnesses upon-whom the trial court was compelled to rely. This doubtless accounts for the seeming contradiction in the testimony of witnesses who could have no motive to falsify. This controversy has its roots nearly half a century back. At that time the telephone business in the…