Beaty v. Doughty

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

John S. Beaty was one of a number of persons owning a rural telephone line which connected with the central at Piedmont. Each of them paid a service fee amounting to 33 Ví-j-cents a month as a switchboard charge. In the latter part of 1917, and especially during December of that year, Beaty complained that the service was very poor and threatened to refuse payment unless the trouble should be remedied. In January, 1918, the service became in his judgment so bad that he refused to pay his 33Y$ cents for that month. He had already paid up to…