Legal Opinion

Cohn v. Hickey-Freeman Co.

District Court, W.D. New York

Decided July 2, 1917No. 140-BPublished

In Equity. Bill by Cohn, Rissman & Co. against the Hickey-Eree-man Company.

1Opinion of the Court

HAZEL,, District Judge.

The specification of the Cohn and Weiner patent, No. 1,121,581, dated December 15, 1914, for an improved process for cutting and fitting wearing apparel, states that the process consists of cutting and working and seaming together two pieces of striped or patterned cloth, keeping the stripes or patterns in parallelism with the seam line so that they will follow longitudinally the curves of the body to be fitted. According to the patentees, in making fitted coats it was customary to cut the inner edges of the back halves curved, with the result that in striped or…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Smith v. NicholsSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
  2. Burt v. EvorySupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  3. Duer v. Corbin Cabinet Lock Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1893
  4. Berardini v. TocciU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1911

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