Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co. v. Riggs

Plaintiff • in error, Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company, operated the only telephone system in Houston. When a telephone was installed' it required the subscriber' to sign a written contract for a year, and pay two months’ rental in advance. Defendant in error, H. P. Riggs, signed such a contract for a. telephone in his residence and paid in advance the rental for two months from July 12, 1917. This contract was accepted by the company, and the telephone installed.

The company kept its accounts with its subscribers by numbers only, and through some mistake the money paid by Riggs was…