Stitt v. Eastern R. Co.

This is an action at law to recover damages for alleged infringement of letters patent No. 147,863, granted to George Richards, February 24, 1874, for “improvement in perches for dumping cars.” The only question before the court is whether the patent is void for want of novelty under the following circumstances contained in the agreed statement of facts:

“That in the year 1868 one William Parker, then a resident of Aspinwall, in the republic of Columbia, and superintendent of the Panama Railroad Company, sent from Aspinwall to the Portland Company, a corporation doing business as manufacturers…