NEW ENG. TEL. & TEL. CO. v. NATL. MERCHANDISING CORP.


335 Mass. 658 (1957)

141 N.E.2d 702

NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY vs. NATIONAL MERCHANDISING CORP. & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 5, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles C. Cabot, (John M. Gepson & C. Duane Aldrich with him,) for the plaintiff.

Francis T. Leahy, for the defendants.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & CUTTER, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

The plaintiff (hereinafter called the telephone company) provides telephone service in several New England States. It furnishes, without special charge, to its subscribers telephone directories, which, in addition to an alphabetical listing of subscribers, contain (except in Boston1) classified advertising of business subscribers in what are usually known as the "yellow pages." In 1955, from its classified advertising the telephone...

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