Show EXCLUSIVE TELEPHONE SERVICE IS ILLEGAL ALBANY N. N Yo 1 June 13 Telephone Telephone companies cannot enforce a a. contract for exclusive service according to a decision here this week In iii the action of the Central Central Central Cen Cen- New 10 York Telephone and T Telegraph company a against the proprietors of the Yates hotel at S Syracuse e. e A contract was entered Into It was ivas was agreed that the tho hotel would uso exclusively the Central Central Central Cen Cen- telephone for nine years The Tire hotel k keepers sought to introduce another telephone lob tele phone and the company brought suit to restrain them The court of oC appeals ll holds that such a contract would shut strut out customers of ot rival companies from telephone communication cation with ss their neighbors and conI condemns con con- lemna the exclusive o clause of this contract as ts n against public policy polley and I therefore void |