National Cash-Register Co. v. American Cash-Register Co.

Those two cases are between the same parties, and were heard together. One of them is a suit for the infringement of letters patent No. 271,363, granted January 30,1883, to James Bitty and John ■Birch, for improvements in cash-registers and indicators. The other suit is for the infringement of letters patent No. 253,506, granted February 14, 1882, to Michael Campbell for an improvement in the like apparatus. The Bitty and .Birch invention relates to eash-regislers and indicators designed for the use of store-keepers and others as a means of accurately registering the cash receipts for any…