Jarvis v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

TUNKS, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff, Lloyd E. Jarvis, filed this suit in the District Court of Harris County, Texas, complaining of the defendants, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, and its employee, John Fry. The petition alleges that the defendants attached a monitoring device known as a pen register to the plaintiff’s telephone and used information obtained thereby as the basis for a criminal prosecution of plaintiff on a charge of harassing by telephone in violation of Art. 467, Vernon’s Ann.P.C. Plaintiff was tried and was acquitted of the criminal charge. He seeks to recover…