Clinton-Dunn Telephone Co. v. Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from SampsoN, from order rendered by Peebles, J., ■ at chambers. Givil action in Superior Court of Sampson County to compel defendant company to restore telephone connection of plaintiff company with the local exchange of defendant company in Dunn, N. C., and supply service in that town for plaintiff and subscribers, pursuant to a contract set forth and described in tbe complaint.
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Appeal from SampsoN, from order rendered by Peebles, J., ■ at chambers. Givil action in Superior Court of Sampson County to compel defendant company to restore telephone connection of plaintiff company with the local exchange of defendant company in Dunn, N. C., and supply service in that town for plaintiff and subscribers, pursuant to a contract set forth and described in tbe complaint. Tbe cause was beard on a rule to show cause, obtained in term and returnable before bis Honor, R. B. Pee-bles, Judge, bolding tbe courts of tbe Sixth District, at Wilmington, N. C., on 3 Junk, 1911, and on…
1Opinion of the Court
IÍOKE, J.,
after stating tbe case: On tbe bearing it was made to appear that, in 1901, E. F. Young and wife owned and operated, for charge, a local telephone system in tbe town of Dunn, N. O., and plaintiff, a corporation acting under a <¿"was¿-public franchise, owned and operated a like system in tbe town of Clinton, N. C., and was extending its line towards Dunn. That oil 15 February of that year tbe said Young and Avife entered into a contract with plaintiff, in consideration of $10 and that plaintiff company would pay for two-thirds of tbe poles from tbe corporate line of Dunn to tbe local…
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