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UNITED STATES v. BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY

No. 344.

167 U.S. 224 (1897)

17 S.Ct. 809

42 L.Ed. 144

UNITED STATES, v. AMERICAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 10, 1897.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert S. Taylor and Mr. Causten Browne for appellants. Mr. Attorney General was on their brief. Mr. Charles H. Aldrich also filed a brief for appellants.

Mr. James McNaught and Mr. Joseph D. Redding by leave of court filed a brief on behalf of the Standard Telephone Company in support of the appellants.

Mr. Joseph H. Choate and Mr. Frederick P. Fish for appellees. Mr. James J. Storrow, Mr. W.W. Swan and Mr. W.K. Richardson were on their brief.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit by the United States to set aside a patent for an invention as wrongfully issued. It is, we believe, the first case in this court in which upon proofs such an application has been presented. The right of the United States to maintain such a suit was affirmed in United States v. American Bell Telephone Co.,

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