Horton v. Interstate Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Tbe defendant is a public service corporation. The present action is in its nature a mandamus to compel defendant to perform a duty which plaintiff alleges it owed him as a public service corporation and install a telephone in plaintiff’s place of business and place the name T. J. Horton Company in defendant’s telephone directory. A mandamus is a proper remedy in such cases when the facts warrant. Godwin v. Telephone Co., 136 N. C., 259; Telephone Co. v. Telephone Co., 159 N. C., 16; Walls v. Strickland, 174 N. C., 298; Public Service Co. v. Power Co., 179 N. C., 18; Public Service Co. v.…