Electric Gaslighting Co. v. Fuller
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. In Equity. . Bill by the Electric Gaslighting Company and Abraham L. Bogart against Charles E. Fuller and others, copartners as Fuller, Holtzer & Co., for infringement of certain patents for electric gaslighting apparatus. Bill dismissed. 55 Fed. 64 Complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The bill covered a patent issued to Abraham L. Bogart, August 8,1876, No. 180,832; hut no issue seems to be taken upon this, and the bill should be dismissed, so far as that patent is concerned. The controversy relates wholly to the first claim of the patent issued to Jacob P. Tirrell, No. 232,661, September 28,1880, on an application filed January 8,1877.
The appellants maintain that, inasmuch as the court below ordered the bill dismissed because of a certain patent of Heyl and Delhi, there is no occasion here to discuss any other defense; but, even if that had been the…
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