20 FEDERAL REPORTER·
said district,—·tl1at is to say, in said Eastern and Western division of said
Southern district,. and in said Northern district of Ohio,—under and by vir-
tue of said patents to said Bell, and by the means and in the manner here-
inafter set forth. Your orator further shows that the defendant the Ameri-
can Bell Telephone Company owns all the telephone instruments used in the
business of telephony in the United States conducted under the authority of
its patents, and especially all those used by said defendants, or any or either
of them, in the state of Ohio; the said instruments that are used by them in
said state being in number over 20.000. Its local associates and copartners,
the said companies, respectively, own their wires and poles, and contribute
V the same as their shares, respectively, of the capital of the business, while
the American Bell Telephone Company furnishes the franchise and exclusive
right of said patents, and the telephone instruments, together with a contract
stipulation with each of said local companies that the American Bell Tele-
phone Company will also supply counsel, and maintain all such suits, and do
all things, to make the business an` exclusive and close monopoly, without
charge or burden, to the local company or corporation; that the local associa-
tion, copartnership, or joint stock company thus formed, divides the profits
of the business between the American Bell Telephone Company and the said
local association, on terms agreed upon between the parties, and the share
of the American Bell Telephone Company, as your orator is informed and
believes. is set apart weekly, and accounted for by said local company, and is
collected by agents of the American Bell Telephone Company. who visit said
local company for that purpose, or otherwise paid to said American Bell
Telephone Company; that the telephone being a necessary agent in conduct-
ing commercial business affairs, the said business is carried on in the manner
hereinbefore stated in every city and town of importance in the United States,
and between cities, towns, and places in different states, and is so carried on
by said defendants in the Eastern division of the Southern district aforesaid.
and in the Western division thereof, and the Northern district of said state;
and that the said other defendants or sub—companies are part owners and `co-
partners, agents, and representatives of the said American Bell Telephone
Company within each of the divisions and districts aforesaid of the state of
Ohio, and that the said A!D01‘lC3ll Bell Telephone Company is entitled to, and
has an interest in, all and singular the property, rights, and business of the
other said defendants; that the said American Bell Telephone Company does
business in each of said divisions and districts by the sale and grant of
l licenses to use said patents, by the renting or lease of said telephone instru-
ments, by sharing in the earnings and profits of each of said local companies,
by holding stock in the same, by having an interest in the rights, property,
and business thereof, by supporting and maintaining each of said companies
in litigation, by the employment of ojicers, agents, and servants in each of
said divisions and districts, and by divers other means and devices."
Subpoenas were issued to the marshals of the Southern and North-
ern districts of Ohio for the American Bell Telephone Company, and
O the local companies resident therein, reciting that the American Bell
Telephone Company (impleaded with others) was "a corporation do-
ing business and found in the state of Ohio."
The returns of the marshals thereon were as follows: _
"Received this writ at Columbus, Ohio, on the twenty-third day of March,
1886, and on the twenty-fourth day of March, 1886, I served this writ on the
defendant the American Bell Telephone Company (which is a corporation do-
ing business and found within the Eastern and Western divisions of the
Southern district of the state of Ohio) by reading the same to A. D. Bullock,
the president of the City 8c Suburban Telegraph Company, and delivering him
a duly-attested copy thereof, (the said City & Suburban Telegraph Company