Kaul v. American Independent Telephone Co.

*2The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This was a suit begun by the plaintiffs to enjoin defendant from a-threatened disconnection of plaintiffs’ telephone line with defendant’s exchange at Holton and from the refusal of certain rates and privileges stipulated in an agreement previously made. It appears that on February 5, 1903, plaintiffs, individually and as an unincorporated association of farmers known as The Bills Creek Telephone Company, having for its object the maintenance of a local telephone line, and defendant The American Independent Telephone Company agreed,…