Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California September 25, 1945, Civ. A. No. 5986 (Farrar v. Fry)

THE COURT.

The principal legal questions here presented for our determination are;

(1) Where telephone service is furnished a tenant of an apartment house through a centrally maintained switchboard, a charge being made the tenant for outgoing but none for incoming calls, is this one of “the same essential services” which the landlord must continue to provide after the effective maximum rent date,