Kirk v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a claim by George E. Kirk as assignee of letters-patent No. 462,224, for a street letter-box, issued October 27, 1891, to Samuel Strong, upon an application filed therefor March 9, 1874. The original petition was filed October 27,1884, about ten years after the application for the patent was filed, and seven years before it was finally issued.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a claim by George E. Kirk as assignee of letters-patent No. 462,224, for a street letter-box, issued October 27, 1891, to Samuel Strong, upon an application filed therefor March 9, 1874. The original petition was filed October 27,1884, about ten years after the application for the patent was filed, and seven years before it was finally issued. The case having been tried by the Court of Claims, that court made a finding of facts, of which the following is an abstract: On March 30 and August 31, 1869, there were granted to said Samuel Strong two…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
In his amended petition of January 26,1891, claimant asserts himself to be the assignee of the improvements made by Strong, for which the two patents of March 31 and August 31, 1869, were issued; as well as the assignee of another patent, issued February 7, 1882; and also of an application for still another of March 9,1871. He sets forth the contracts of September 15, 1869, and February 18,1870, and the performance of the same, and alleges that, “at the termination and expiration of said contract, the said Samuel Strong applied to the Postmaster General of the United States for a renewal of…
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