American Bell Telephone Co. v. People's Telephone Co.

This suit is brought to enjoin the defendants from using and furnishing to others for use the several inventions described in two patents granted to Alexander Graham Bell, of Salem, Massachusetts, being No. 174,465, bearing date March 7, 1876, for “Improvements in Telegraphy,” and No. 186,787, bearing date January 30, 1877, for “Improvements in Electric Telephony.” The issues made by the pleadings are practically resolved into the single question, to which the proofs and argument of counsel are mainly addressed, whether the patentee Bell, or Daniel Drawbaugh, of Mill-town, in Cumberland…