Legal Opinion

Rubber-Coated Harness-Trimming Co. v. Welling

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 25, 1878No. 221PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt

William M. Welling brought this suit in the Circuit Court against the Rubber-Coated Harness-Trimming Company and others, alleging an infringement of his letters-patent No. 37,941, bearing date March 17, 1863, for an improvement in rings for martingales, and recovered damages. The company thereupon appealed to this court.

Welling’s patent bears date of March 17, 1863, and recites that a previous patent to him described a particular mode of making factitious ivory, out of which billiard-balls and rings of various kinds were manufactured, and states that his present invention does not relate to…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Welch v. SwaseySupreme Court of the United States · 1909
  2. Flanagan v. ForsytheSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1897
  3. Christian v. Waialua Agr. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1937
  4. Antisdel v. Chicago Hotel Cabinet Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1898
  5. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Glidden Co.District Court, E.D. New York · 1932

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