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Show A Victory for the Bell Telephone. Philadelphia, January 6. The final decrees de-crees were entered in the United States Circuit Cir-cuit Court to-day in the suits of the American Ameri-can Bell Telephone Company et al. vs. the Baxter Overland Telephone and Telegraph Co., the Pennsylvania Overland Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the Overland Telephone Company et al. It is decreed that the letters patent granted to Alexander Graham Bell, March 7, 1876, and January 30, 1877, are good and valid in law. The decree then goes on to say that, "said Alexander Graham Bell was the original and first inventor in-ventor of the inventions described in said letters patent; that the title thereto and in the invention described and claimed therein are vested in complainants, and the defendants defend-ants have infringed the fifth claim of said letters patent and the exclusive rights of the complainants under the same; and it is further fur-ther ordered, adjudged and decreed that complainants waiving an account and assessment of profit and damages, and accounting a nominal sum therefor, the defendants pay to the complainants the sum of $1 as such profit and'damages, and also the costs, taxed at the sum of $25, and that plaintiffs have judgment and execution therefor, and also that said defendants be perpetually enjoined and restrained from making, selling or using said improvements 'patented as aforesaid, or either of them, and that an injunction issue accordingly. |