Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Matlock

The judgment from which this appeal comes was rendered in the circuit court in a suit for penalties under the provisions of § 10251, Crawford & Moses’ Digest, now § 14261 of Pope’s Digest, wherein there was an alleged discrimination in failure and refusal to render telephone service to the appellee, an attorney.

Frazee & Chester had offices in the Southern building at Little Rock and occupied a suite of three rooms. They rented one of these rooms to Matlock, who made application to the appellant company for telephone service to he rendered under what is known or termed in telephone parlance as…