Legal Opinion
Atkin Wright & Miles v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Decided October 22, 1985No. 18232PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEWART, Justice:
This suit arose out of an error made by Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. (Mountain Bell) in listing the same telephone number in the yellow-page directory for the law firm of Atkin, Wright and Miles (Atkin) and also for the law firm of Allen, Thompson and Hughes (Allen). A jury awarded general and punitive damages to Atkin, and Mountain Bell appeals the award. We reverse.
When Mountain Bell distributed its St. George yellow-page directory in October, 1980, the directory correctly listed the At-kin firm’s telephone number as 673-4605 in both the white pages and the…
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