General Sub-Const. Co. v. Netcher

SANBORN, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 718,441, issued January 13, 1903, to John M. Ewen, covering a mechanical process or method of making substructures for buildings. The general purpose of 1 he inventor was to so construct the exterior wall trench, extending around the proposed building, as to sustain and equalize the lateral pressure from adjoining buildings and streets, without the necessity of shoring or underpinning them. While the owner of land may *550not remove the lateral support of adjoining land in its natural state, he may…