Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Ashley

WALTER, Justice.

James H. Ashley and wife, Bonnie Ashley, filed suit against Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Chester L. Todd, David E. Burchett, and Joe Cochran alleging the defendants entered into a conspiracy to invade their privacy, wrongfully invaded their privacy by the unlawful use of their long distance records, and were guilty of wiretapping and eavesdropping. The court directed a verdict in favor of all the individual defendants on all claims. The court instructed a verdict for Bell on the conspiracy and the unlawful use of plaintiffs’ long distance records and overruled its…