Consolidated Ry. Electric Lighting & Equipment Co. v. Adams & Westlake Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal and Cross-Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The appellant, Consolidated Railway Electric Lighting & Equipment Company, was the complainant below in a bill filed against the Adams & Westlake Company, as defendant, for alleged infringement of three claims of patent No. 740,982. Issued to the complainant, as assignee of Patrick Kennedy.
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Appeal and Cross-Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. The appellant, Consolidated Railway Electric Lighting & Equipment Company, was the complainant below in a bill filed against the Adams & Westlake Company, as defendant, for alleged infringement of three claims of patent No. 740,982. Issued to the complainant, as assignee of Patrick Kennedy. The decree of the Circuit Court adjudged infringement of the claims by the defendant, in a single instance, for which injunction was granted, but that the third claim was not…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The patent in suit, No. 740,982, involves no question of advance in method or means of lighting trains of cars by electricity, with the revolution of the car wheels utilized for generating the current, beyond improvement in the means for suspension and operation of the dynamo outside of the truck-frame of the car Both utility and commercial value of the device are facts in this record, but the narrow scope of the claims alleged to be infringed is likewise well established, if their patentability can be upheld under the evidence. The prior state of the art…
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