Heap v. Tremont & Suffolk Mills
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District, of Massachusetts. This was a suit íd equity by Charles Heap against the Tremont and Suffolk Mills, for alleged infringement of letters patent No. 377,151, issued January 31, 1888, to Henry Nicholas Grosselin, Fils, for a machine for napping cloth. The circuit court dismissed the bill (75 Fed. 406), and the complainant has appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This is a bill in equity, charging infringement, which was dismissed by the circuit court. The complainant appealed, so that the words “complainant” and “appellant” mean the moving party in each court, and the words “defendant” and “respondent” mean the alleged infringer. The suit relates to claims 1, 2, and 3 of a patent issued January 31, 1888, to one Grosselin, of Sedan, in France, for improvements in machines for napping cloth; and the court below held that those claims were so limited by the English patent to William Davis, of July 24, 1823, and the German patent to…
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