Dashiell v. Grosvenor
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of tlie United States for tlie District of Maryland. Tlie court stated the case as f ollows: This is an appeal from a decree rendered in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Maryland in the chancery cause of James B. M. Grosvenor and others against Robert B. Dashiell, by which it was adjudged that letters patent No. 425,584, granted to Samuel Seabury, dated April 15, 1890, for improvement in breech-loading cannon, are…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of tlie United States for tlie District of Maryland. Tlie court stated the case as f ollows: This is an appeal from a decree rendered in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Maryland in the chancery cause of James B. M. Grosvenor and others against Robert B. Dashiell, by which it was adjudged that letters patent No. 425,584, granted to Samuel Seabury, dated April 15, 1890, for improvement in breech-loading cannon, are valid, and that the same have been infringed by Robert B. Dashiell; also, that said Seabury and hj^ assigns recover from said…
1Opinion of the CourtGoff, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). We think that the pleadings and proofs of this cause clearly demonstrate that this is, in substance, if not in form, a proceeding, the object of which is to prevent the making of breech-loading cannon of a certain character, and by a particular device, at the navy yard of the United States in the city of Washington, Distinct of Columbia, by those officially in charge thereof, representing the government of the United States) and, also, it is clearly shown that the injunction granted by the court below will in effect prohibit the officers so in charge of…
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