Electric Railway Company of the United States, complainant, vs. the Jamaica and Brooklyn Road Company, defendant

In 1883 Edison incorporated the Electric Railway Company of the United States, and in 1889 Stephen Dudley Field was granted a patent for his electric streetcar engine. By 1893 the Electric Railway Company had acquired Field's patent, and sued the Jamaica and Brooklyn Road Company for copyright infringement with regard to the use of a stationary dynamo electric generator. - dealer's description.