Carver v. Hyde
Supreme Court of the United States
ON a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of Massachusetts. The plaintiff in error instituted a suit for the recovery of damages for the infringement of his patent for an improvement in the use of cotton gins. The Circuit Court, on the verdict of the jury, gave a judgment for the defendants. A bill of exceptions-having been tendered by the plaintiff to the charge of the Court, on the facts, in favour of the defendant, given by the Court.
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ON a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States, for the district of Massachusetts. The plaintiff in error instituted a suit for the recovery of damages for the infringement of his patent for an improvement in the use of cotton gins. The Circuit Court, on the verdict of the jury, gave a judgment for the defendants. A bill of exceptions-having been tendered by the plaintiff to the charge of the Court, on the facts, in favour of the defendant, given by the Court. The plaintiff prosecuted this writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This case is brought here by writ of error, directed to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts. It is an action by the plaintiff in error against the defendants, to recover damages for the infringement of a patent right, obtained by the plaintiff on the 16th of November, 1839. The patent'is in the usual form, and tjhe questions before ,■ us depend upon the construction of the specification, which is -in' the following words, v “ Be it known, that I, Eleazer Carver, of Bridgewater, in the county of Plymouth, and state of Massachusetts, have invented a certain…
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