Brown v. District of Columbia
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The case, as stated by the court in its opinion, was as follows: Tallmadge E. Brown filed his bill in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on the 14th day of April, 1880, counting upon three patents alleged to have been infringed by the respondent, namely: Patent No. 101,590, issued to Turner Cowing, April 5, 1870, for “ a new mode of constructing wood pavóments for streets.”
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The case, as stated by the court in its opinion, was as follows: Tallmadge E. Brown filed his bill in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on the 14th day of April, 1880, counting upon three patents alleged to have been infringed by the respondent, namely: Patent No. 101,590, issued to Turner Cowing, April 5, 1870, for “ a new mode of constructing wood pavóments for streets.” The specification and claim are as follows: “ The nature of my invention consists in providing and arranging blocks of a peculiar shape in manner to…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
Was a wood pavement “ composed of blocks, each- side having a single plain surface and one or more of the sides being inclined, and the blocks being so laid. on their larger ends as to form wedge-shaped grooves on spaces to receive concrete or other suitable filling,” patentable April 5, 1870, in view of the state of the art ? '
Chambers had, in. 1824, described a pavement of pyramidal stones, twelve inches square at the base, eight inches square at the apex, and ten inches high, placed with their larger end downward, and the interstices filled with loose materials insoluble in water.
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