Show D supreme court decision given adverse to the edison company important case ended by a verdict for tho american orapha phone company washington dec 24 A decision was rendered today in the supreme court district of columbia in tho suit pending foi nearly two brought by alie american Graph aphone company nominally against the columbia phonograph company com nany hie real parties defendant being and the edison phonograph works it waa alleged by the american company that the original edison tinfoil graph was a failure as alie sound records it made were not accurate permanent or capable of being reproduced as often as desired and it could not be detached from the and transported and that the art as now known was created by tho inventions of alex graham bell A bell and charles S tainter who began work under the auspices of the volta la oratory association and whose patents were afterwards acquired by alio american Graph aphone company and that every phonograph every phonograph cylinder and every phonograph record became practical aej valuable only so far as it upon the principle of engraving alio record as distinguished from tho abandoned method of indenting used on edison original tin foil phonograph no testimony was taken for the columbia phonograph company in alie case and when the time limit fixed by the court had almost expired hie defendant withdrew counsel and allowed a by default the court finds for alie american company on every point issues a decree ot injunction against tho defendants and orders an accounting by the auditor of the court other fluitt are pending in new jersey new york massachusetts ohio and |