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C. & P. TELEPHONE CO. v. MURRAY

[No. 39, October Term, 1951.]

198 Md. 526 (1951)

84 A.2d 870

CHESAPEAKE AND POTOMAC TELEPHONE COMPANY OF BALTIMORE CITY v. MURRAY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 6, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Dorsey Watkins, with whom were Piper, Watkins, Avirett & Egerton on the brief, for the appellant.

Frank L. Fuller, III, with whom were Cornelius P. Mundy and Marshall, Carey, Doub & Munday on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.

DELAPLAINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit for breach of contract was brought by Edward T. Murray against the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City to recover damages for his discharge from employment as a salesman of telephone directories.

The contract, which was oral, was made in 1926. Prior to that time the only telephone directories which defendant issued listed subscribers alphabetically. Other Bell Telephone companies...

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