Gibson v. Elmore City Telephone Company

HALLEY, Chief Justice.

There is involved here a controversy between two utilities operating private telephone exchanges over the proper division of telephone charges made on toll calls handled in interchange operations between the two parties. The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. The original plaintiff died during the pendency of this action and the case has been revived in the name of the executors of her estate.

The trial court dismissed the action holding it was without jurisdiction and that jurisdiction over the controversy was vested exclusively in the…