Shaw v. Cooper
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York. At the October term 1829 of the circuit court for the southern district of New York, the plaintiff in error, Joseph Shaw, instituted an action against the defendant, Joseph Cooper, for an alleged violation of a patent granted to him by the United' States, dated the 7th of Mdy 1829, .for “ a new and useful improvement in guns and fire aims, which improvement consisted in a priming head…
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IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York. At the October term 1829 of the circuit court for the southern district of New York, the plaintiff in error, Joseph Shaw, instituted an action against the defendant, Joseph Cooper, for an alleged violation of a patent granted to him by the United' States, dated the 7th of Mdy 1829, .for “ a new and useful improvement in guns and fire aims, which improvement consisted in a priming head and case applied to arms and- fire arms, for.the purpose of priming and giving them fire by the' means or use of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice M’Lean
delivered the opinion of the Court..
This writ of error brings before this court, for its revision, a judgment of the- circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York.
An action was brought in the circuit court by Shaw against the ^defendant Cooper, for the violation of a certain patent right, claimed by the plaintiff. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and. gave notice that on the trial he would prove “that the pretended new and ugpful improvement in guns and fire arms, mentioned and referred to in the several counts in the declaration; also that the said…
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