Falk Mfg. Co. v. Missouri R.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri.
1Opinion of the Court
THAYER, Circuit Judge.
This action was brought by the Falk Manufacturing Company, the appellant, to restrain the infringement of United States letters patent Ao. 545,040, dated August 20,1895, and issued to Albert Hoffman and Herman W. Falk under an application which was filed on March 18, 1895. The defenses principally relied upon by the defendants below, who are the appellees here, are want *296of patentable novelty, and anticipation by the prior art. In the specification the patentees recite that they “have invented a certain new and useful improvement in rail joints and methods of forming the…
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