Edmunds v. Myers
Illinois Supreme Court
This bill states, that prior to 12th of December, 1853, the said Edmunds professed to have invented an horological cradle, which was to be rocked by machinery, with a weight, running on one or more pulleys; the cradle constituting the pendulum, and which, being wound up, would rock itself until it run down, and so save the continual labor to mothers and nurses, of rocking the cradle ; and professed to have obtained a patent for the said invention, and had, at and before that…
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This bill states, that prior to 12th of December, 1853, the said Edmunds professed to have invented an horological cradle, which was to be rocked by machinery, with a weight, running on one or more pulleys; the cradle constituting the pendulum, and which, being wound up, would rock itself until it run down, and so save the continual labor to mothers and nurses, of rocking the cradle ; and professed to have obtained a patent for the said invention, and had, at and before that day, been exhibiting at Mount Pulaski, where the parties to this suit all resided, a model of said pretended invention,…
1Opinion of the Court
,'Scates, J.
Myers filed this bill for the" rescission of a contract, by written assignment of Edmunds, of his patent to a ¡horological cradle in certain counties in this State, and a re-■■■conveyance of a tract of land paid therefor, and the re-payment ..of ifive hundred dollars, paid him in goods and chattels. The .grounds set up for this equity are, the misrepresentation and fraud .of Edmunds, in this, that he represented' and sold to .them a patent for the principle, machinery and mode of operation by which the cradle was put and kept in motion, whereas -he had no patent for these, but…
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