Olcott v. Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.

ROGER J. WAYBRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

This controversy involves a determination by this court of the question: When a telephone subscriber is given a 48-hour notice by the telephone company, pursuant to Florida Statutes §365.08 (5), that his telephone will be disconnected because it has been used for bookmaking, is the subscriber entitled to invoke the aid of a court to enjoin the disconnecting of his telephone by merely saying the subscriber did not know his telephone had been used for that illegal purpose, when the subscriber declines to say the telephone was not used for that illegal purpose?

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