Couvelis v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.

Plaintiffs, doing business in the city of Benton Harbor, as Harbor Lunch, joined the people with them in a suit to recover a statutory penalty from defendant, Michigan Bell Telephone Company, because of its failure to furnish flat rate telephone service from October 10, 1934, to August 10, 19'35. The action was planted on 2 Comp. Laws 1929, § 11699, and damages -were claimed in the sum of $15,000.

Defendant denied that it refused to furnish flat rate service and said that one of the plaintiff’s telephone instruments was removed because the public generally was permitted to use the flat rate…