Page v. Holmes Burglar Alarm Telegraph Co.

In this case a decision has been filed sustaining the validity of the patent sued on as respects its eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth claims, and holding that the defendant has infringed those claims by making and selling telegraph burglar alarms, in which a circuit breaker acts automatically to break the circuit, so that by the movement of an armatur to and from an electro-magnet a bell is rapidly struck by a hammer, and which alarms contain the inventions covered by said three claims.

The defendant now, before the usual interlocutory decree in favor of the plaintiff is entered, presents to…