. Electric railway gazette . d to mark an era in the industry in the United tates and consequently in the world. The old rm of Murphy & Allison which was one of the J TO earliest builders of street cars having had ;i leir extensive works destroyed by fire in 1863, 5 oved to a larger plant and thereafter carried on iieir works exclusively for the building of freightirs. During the years prior and subsequent to 1863 J. G. Brill and his son G. Martin Brill wereamong the most valued employees of Murphy &Allison. After Murphy & Allison relinquishedpassenger car building, the business fell entirelvi


. Electric railway gazette . d to mark an era in the industry in the United tates and consequently in the world. The old rm of Murphy & Allison which was one of the J TO earliest builders of street cars having had ;i leir extensive works destroyed by fire in 1863, 5 oved to a larger plant and thereafter carried on iieir works exclusively for the building of freightirs. During the years prior and subsequent to 1863 J. G. Brill and his son G. Martin Brill wereamong the most valued employees of Murphy &Allison. After Murphy & Allison relinquishedpassenger car building, the business fell entirelvinto the hands of two firms in the State of NewYork, the leading one of which finding a monopoly had dropped into his hands, strengthened itby the purchase of almost any an I all patentswhich had a bearing on street cars, and this ag-gregation presented so formidable an appearancethat the impression was created that no streetcars could be built without infringing on someof these patents. The natural consequence of. this was high prices. After the establishment ofMr. Brills works and after the name had begunto be known this obstacle was examination of the subject made it clearthat the majority of these patents were not ten-able, and the new works found themselves in theposition of being obliged to make good theirclaim that the patents were not tenable. Theresult was a long and expensive suit tried in theplaintiffs district and being lost by him thereappealed to the Supreme Court where the judg-ment was also in favor of the defendent. Fol-lowing also in the wake of the leading suit wereat least a dozen suits against different railwaycompanies which were defended and won by theable counsel of J. G. Brill & Co. Besides thesepatents there was another one owned in New England for a vital part of a street car which hadnot only run its legal course but had been ex-tended out of regard for the interests of thewidow of the patentee (who by the way receivednothing or ne


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