Illinois Manufacturers' Ass'n v. Chicago Telephone Co.

Tuley, J.:

This is a bill filed by the Manufacturers’ Association and a number of other lessees of, and subscribers for, telephone instruments, equipments, and service, carrying on various kinds of mercantile and other business in the city of Chicago, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, who are willing to become complainants and share the expenses of litigation, against the Chicago Telephone Company, an Illinois corporation, which, it is alleged, enjoys a practical monopoly of furnishing telephone service and operating telephone lines in said city.

The bill alleges the due passage…