Berdan Fire-Arms Manufacturing Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: This case, as will be seen by the order appended to the-opinion, was remanded for further evidence in regard to damages.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: This case, as will be seen by the order appended to the-opinion, was remanded for further evidence in regard to damages. The record and the exhibits justify the following statement of facts: That the Department of War invited the public to^ present improved devices that might be used in the manufacture of fire arms ; that the Berdan Fire Arms Manufacturing Company exhibited a model of a gun and made a proposition of terms under a claim that the devices in the gun exhibited were the subjects of patents; that a duly authorized board of…
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, J.
In January, 1866, a board of officers was ordered to assemble in Washington during the following March to examine breech-loading fire-arms and to make recommendations in relation thereto. General Hancock was the president of this board; hence it has -since been known as the u Hancock Board.” One of the questions submitted for examination and recommendation was this: “ What form of breech-loading arm should be adopted as a model for changes of muskets already constructed to breech-loading muskets'?” The object of this direction is apparent: the war, then practically finished, had shown the…
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