Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Lauderdale county. Hon. John L. Buckley, Judge. Tlie state of Mississippi, appellee, acting through. R. Y. Fletcher, Esq., attorney-general, and assisted by local attorneys, filed an information against the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company, appellant, praying judgment of ouster against the company. From a judgment in favor of the state the company appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the facts.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Lauderdale county. Hon. John L. Buckley, Judge. Tlie state of Mississippi, appellee, acting through. R. Y. Fletcher, Esq., attorney-general, and assisted by local attorneys, filed an information against the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company, appellant, praying judgment of ouster against the company. From a judgment in favor of the state the company appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the facts. Code 1906, § 1938, providing for the taking of testimony of a non-resident party, visits upon the party failing to answer snch severe consequences…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
This is an appeal taken from a judgment in the court below imposing .a fine upon appellant, a foreign corporation, for purchasing the plant of a competing corporation, in the city of Meridian, in violation of the anti-trust laws of the state. After the institution of the suit, appellee filed interrogatories, addressed to appellant, under the provisions of § 1938 of the Code, and requested appellant to file with its answers copies of all writings in its possession relating to 'the alleged purchase. These interrogatories were answered by appellant, and certain letters relating to said purchase…
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