McLaughlin v. People's Railway Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
In Equity. Demurrer to bill for infringement of a patent.
1Opinion of the CourtBrewer, J.
The bill charges that letters patent for a street-car gate were issued to the complainant and one J. E. Madison on August 3, 1869; that neither of said patentees ever licensed or granted to defendant the Peoplels Railway Company, or any one else, the right or privilege to make or use said gate, and that said defendant railway company is now, and has been for 13 years last past, using and constructing such patented street-car gates upon its street ears. The prayer is for injunction and accounting. The single question which I deem necessary to consider is whether there has been such laches on…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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