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SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TEL. CO. v. CITY OF MERIDIAN

Civ. A. 812.

154 F.Supp. 736 (1957)

SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO., Plaintiff, v. CITY OF MERIDIAN, Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. Mississippi, E. D.

September 5, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss.; Floyd, Cameron & Deen, Meridian, Miss.; John A. Boykin, Jr., Rexford L. Hawkins, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiff.

Ethridge, Minniece & Bordeaux, and Lester E. Wills, Meridian, Miss., for defendant.

MIZE, District Judge.

This is an action for declaratory judgment brought by the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company against the City of Meridian, Mississippi. The principle question for solution is whether or not an irrevocable franchise was granted to the predecessors of Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company by an act of the legislature of the State of Mississippi in 1886, and whether or not the telephone company accepted that grant so as to...

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