Nichols, Shepard & Co. v. Marsh
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Calhoun. (Hooker, J.) Bill filed to compel conveyance of right to use an invention. Defendants appeal. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, C. J.
This bill was filed to compel defendant? *511to convey to complainants, who are a corporation engaged in engine building at Battle Creek, the right to use a certain improvement, consisting of a reversing apparatus, for which defendants claim to own a patent, and for the principal part of which it is admitted they are entitled to have one.
In the summer of 1880, complainants were engaged in building engines intended for farm work, and self-propelling; and, as the season of fairs was approaching, they were preparing one to exhibit. Defendant Marsh, who is a skilled mechanic, and had worked more or…
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