Burns v. Meyer
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
The only question in this case is, whether the defendants infringe certain letters-patent. (No. 97,236) granted 23d of November, 1869, to John J. Grimsley and John Shelly, for an improved side-saddle tre.e alleged to. have been invented by Shelly; which letters were afterwards assigned to the com-: plainants. .
The infringement alleged consists in making and using sidesaddle trees according to a plan described in another patent granted to Orlando Y. Flora, on the 9th of May, 1876, numbered 177,233. According to the complainants’ patent, this tree, composed of side-bars, cantle behind, and…
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