Wilson v. McCormick Harvesting Mach. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of llie United Slates for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. This was a suit in equity by George V. Wilson and Elmore A. Barnes, surviving co-partners trading as the Ilnssey Manufacturing Company, against the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, for the alleged infringement of a patent. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainants appeal.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of llie United Slates for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. This was a suit in equity by George V. Wilson and Elmore A. Barnes, surviving co-partners trading as the Ilnssey Manufacturing Company, against the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, for the alleged infringement of a patent. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainants appeal. This appeal is from a decree dismissing for want of equity the bill brought by appellants against appellee charging infringement of letters patent of the United States No. 233,035, issued on October…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
Our conclusion is that the court below was right in deciding “that, in view of such limitations as ought to be put upon the complainants’ patent, the defendant’s device does not infringe.” It would be impossible, within the reasonable limits of an opinion, to follow counsel through hundreds of pages of brief in the discussion of the evidence found in the three large volumes which constitute the printed record. We content ourself with a presentation of propositions which are thought to determine the merits of the appeal.
*173The first claim, though not in issue, it is to be observed, does not…
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