Show Another Important Telephone Suit PHILADELPHIA February 2A telephone tele-phone suit involving the right to erect and maintain long distance telephone wires between New York Philadelphia Phila-delphia and various large cities was begun in the United States circuit court by a bill in equity filed this afternoon by the attorneys for the I Brooks Telegraph Construction Company Com-pany The defendants are a part of the Bell Telephone syndicate and have organized the corporation which has recently opened offices in various cities The prospectus issued by the defendant company says that the Telephone Exchange Ex-change In New York Brooklyn and adjacent cities is now being equipped for metallic service in connection with these lines by which Phladelphia I business men will be placed in irect communication with any subscribers to I i tne telephone exchange in New York and surrounding villages and cities in New York Now J rsev and Connecticut Connecti-cut numbering in all over 1600 stations sta-tions The plaintiff claim that they boifght the exclusive right under the patent to use and make metallic circuits cir-cuits throughout the United States for a term of seventeen years from February 1881 and that they have expended large sums of money in perfecting the system but that the defendants de-fendants are violating this exclusive right It is claimed that the rapid application ap-plication to long distance of the telephone I tele-phone to modern purposes rendersihe pn pective value of the ownership of the metallic circuit to be rendered in the courts second only to that of the telephone itself |