Edison Electric Light Co. v. United States Electric Lighting Co.

The plea to the hill of complaint, which has been sot down for argument, alleges in substance that the defendant should not be compelled to answer, because by reason of the facts averred in the plea the remedy of the complainant is plain, adequate, and complete at law, and this court should not take cognisance in equity of the suit.

The hill alleges the infringement by the defendant of letters patent of the United States No. 263,140, dated August 22, 1882, granted to the complainant upon the application of Edison, for an improvement in dynamo-electric machines, the invention of Edison. The…