Burch v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

The defendants in the circuit court were Mrs. J. F. Vernon, the owner and operator of the Oak Hill Dairy Farm, located about five or six miles east of Brookhaven; the Lincoln Lumber Company, a domestic corporation, and the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, which operated telephone exchanges and maintained lines for that purpose in that county. The latter company owned and maintained a telephone line from Brookhaven to Cameron’s Store, about four miles east of Brookhaven. At Cameron’s Store the telephone company had made the necessary árrangements and furnished the necessary service…