Godwin v. Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Jane Godwin against the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company, heard by Judge G. S. Ferguson, at March Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of I/enoie County. Erom a judgment for the defendant the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClark, C. J.
The exception to ,the verification of the amendment to the answer is without merit. Since Phifer v. Ins. Co., 123 N. C., 410, the General Assembly has amended section 258 of The Code by providing (Acts 1901, ch. 610) that when a corporation is a party the verification of any pleading may be made by a “managing or local agent thereof,” as well as by an officer who alone, formerly, was authorized to make verification in such cases.
This is an application for a mandamus to compel the defendant to put a telephone with necessary fixtures and appliances in the dwelling-house of the plaintiff in the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1887
- Wiedwald v. DodsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1892
- People ex rel. Thatcher v. Village of Hyde ParkIllinois Supreme Court · 1886
- Commercial Union Telegraph Co. v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1888
- Phifer v. Travellers Insurance Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1898
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- Telephone News System, Inc. v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1963
- Pennsylvania Publications, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Public Utility CommissionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1944
- Pike v. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1955
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