Ball v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

The appellee, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a New York corporation, qualified to do business in the State of Mississippi, filed its petition in the Circuit Court of Pearl River County, Mississippi, seeking to exercise the power of eminent domain and prayed for the organization of a special court of eminent domain. The petition alleged that the petitioner was authorized by its charter to engage in the business of furnishing facilities for communications between the various states of the United States, and that it proposed to construct as an addition to its present facilities new…