Schoerken v. Swift & Courtney & Beecher Co.

Wheeler, D. J.

This suit is brought upon letters patent of the United States No. 63,104, dated March 19, 1867, and issued to the orator, for a match-box. Among the defences set up in the answer is one that the same invention had been previously patented in letters patent of France No. 52,907, dated February 6, 1862, and a certificate of addition thereto, dated April 29, 1864, granted and issued to one Caussemille. The orator’s invention is not shown earlier than the patent. The defendant ha's filed in evidence what purports to be a copy of the patent set up in the answer, certifiéd from…