Electric Gas-Lighting Co. v. Boston Electric Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM TIIE CIRCUIT COURT OF TIIE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. In equity for the infringement of letters patent. Decree dismissing the bill. Complainant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
This is a bill in equity, filed in the Circuit Court of the: United States for the District of Massachusetts, on' the 1st of May, 1SS4, by the Electric Gas-Lighting Company, a Maine’ corporation, against the Boston Electric Company, a Massachusetts corporation, for the alleged infringement of claims 2, 4 and 5 of reissued letters patent No. 9743, granted June 7, 1881, to the Franklin Electric Gas-Lighting Company, as assignee of Jacob P. Tirrell, the inventor, for improvements in electrical apparatus for lighting street lamps, etc., the original letters patent, No. 130,770, having been…
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