Hussey Manuf'g Co. v. Deering

The bill of complaint here charges the defendants with infringing two letters patent for improvements in mowing-machines, granted to Ephraim Smith, the plaintiffs’ assignor, — one numbered 238,035, and dated October 5, 1880, and the other numbered 298,249, and dated May 6, 1884. The case was originally heard and considered by the court upon a motion for a preliminary injunction, which was allowed; the views entertained by the court being set forth in an opinion reported in 20 Fed. Rep. 795. Nothing, I think, has boon shown at final hearing which should cause any departure from the conclusions…