Legal Opinion
Stegner v. Blake
United States Circuit Court
Decided August 6, 1888PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Equity. Suit for infringement of patent.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
This suit is brought upon letters patent No. 215,178r dated May 6, 1879, and granted to the orator Stegner, for an improvement in beer-stamp protector and bung retainer. The defenses are, want of patentability and novelty, and non-infringement.
Some of the orators’ testimony is from witnesses residing out of the district, and more than 100 miles from the place of trial, and has been taken by deposition de bene esse, under the statutes. Objection was made at the time of the taking that it was being done “without authority of court,” and “before an officer without authority under the equity…
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