Legal Opinion

Andrews v. Hovey

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 20, 1888PublishedCited by 56 opinions

APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR TIIE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA. This was a petition for a rehearing of the case, decided at this term and reported in 123 U. S. at page 267. The allegations and prayer of the petitioners were as follows: “ And now come your petitioners, the appellants herein, by their counsel, Joseph C.- Clayton and Anthony Q. Keasbey, and respectfully suggest to this Honorable Court that, after having sustained the priority and novelty…

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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR TIIE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA. This was a petition for a rehearing of the case, decided at this term and reported in 123 U. S. at page 267. The allegations and prayer of the petitioners were as follows: “ And now come your petitioners, the appellants herein, by their counsel, Joseph C.- Clayton and Anthony Q. Keasbey, and respectfully suggest to this Honorable Court that, after having sustained the priority and novelty of the invenWn and the validity of their original patent and its reissue in numerous decisions of -the Circuit Courts…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford

This is a petition by the appellants in the case of Andrews v. Hovey, reported in 123 U. S. 267, for a rehearing of that case upon the points upon which the decision was based.

The suit was a suit in equity, brought by the appellants for the infringement of reissued letters-patent No. 4372, granted to Nelson W. Green, one of the appellants, May 9, 1871, for am “ improvement in the method of constructing artesian wells,” the original patent, No. 73,425, having been granted to said Green, as inventor, January 14, 1868, on an application filed March 17, 1866. The Circuit Court had dismissed the…

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