Faber v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company

ALLRED, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, resident citizens of Texas, sued defendant, a foreign corporation, in the state district court for $7,500 damages. The action was duly removed to this court by reason of diversity of citizenship and amount in controversy.

Plaintiffs allege that prior to publication of defendant’s 1954 telephone directory they had an established and lucrative business, listed in such directory, carrying a paid advertisement in the yellow part, under the name of Texas Sanitation and Pest Control; that when defendant published a new directory, on August 29, 1954, the name was…