Bastin Telephone Co. v. Richmond Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 13 — Action by Bastin Telephone Company against Richmond and Cumberland Telephone Company for Breach of Contract. APPEAL FROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. From a Judgment Sustaining a Demurrer to the Petition, Plaintiff Appeals.
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Case 13 — Action by Bastin Telephone Company against Richmond and Cumberland Telephone Company for Breach of Contract. APPEAL FROM MADISON CIRCUIT COURT. From a Judgment Sustaining a Demurrer to the Petition, Plaintiff Appeals. The facts alleged in the petition and admitted by appellee’s demurrer to be true, show, that in March 1900, A. H. Bastin and the Richmond Telephone Company entered into a verbal contract wherein they agreed to erect a telephone line between the city of Lancaster and the city of Richmond, each to construct the line to a half way point between said cities, and the line…
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Opinion op the coubt by
JUDGE NUNN
Affirming.
Appellant sued appellees, the Richmond and Cumberland Telephone Company for $2,000 damages, for the violation of a parol contract to the effect that each party should build a telephone line, one from Richmond, Ky., the other from Lancaster, Ky., to a point half way between the two towns, and there connect, and that each should then have the use and benefit of the other’s lines and connection free tof charge for a period of twenty years. The poles were to be erected by 'both parties, and connection made, within a year from the date of the contract.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Holloway v. HamptonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1844
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