Adams Electric Ry. Co. v. Lindell Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This is an appeal from a decree of the court below, which dismissed a bill for the infringement of letters patent No. 300,828, issued to A. Wellington Adams, on Tune 24, 1881, for improvements in electric motors, on the ground that there was no novelty and no patentable invention in any of the combinations claimed therein. 63 Fed. 986. When the case was submitted at the final hearing…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This is an appeal from a decree of the court below, which dismissed a bill for the infringement of letters patent No. 300,828, issued to A. Wellington Adams, on Tune 24, 1881, for improvements in electric motors, on the ground that there was no novelty and no patentable invention in any of the combinations claimed therein. 63 Fed. 986. When the case was submitted at the final hearing below, the question of the validity of the patent and the question of its infringement by the appellee had been properly…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
This appeal challenges a decree which dismissed a bill brought for the infringement of letters patent No. 300,828, issued to A. Wellington Adams, on June 24, 1884, for an improvement in electric motors for railway cars. The defenses that are now material were that there was no novelty in the alleged invention of Adams, a,nd that the claims Crf the patent were not infringed by the appellee.
The claim of the counsel for the appellant is that Adams was the pioneer in the art of mounting electric motors beneath cars so that they would practically and successfully propel them. They contend that: he…
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