Miller v. American Telephone & Telegraph Company

OPINION

BECHTLE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, Russell P. Miller and Margaret Jane Miller, filed this action against American Telephone & Telegraph Company (“AT&T”) and the named members of the Board of Directors of AT&T (“the individual defendants”) involving a $1,500,000 debt alleged by plaintiffs to be due AT&T from the Democratic National Committee, principally for telephone and other communication services rendered at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, and during the 1968 Presidential campaign. Federal diversity jurisdiction was invoked under 28 U.S.C. § 1332.

This…