Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co. v. Nassau Electric R. Co.

THOMAS, District Judge.

Letters patent No. 324,892, issued to F. J. Sprague on August 25, 1885, relate to the suspension of an electric motor under a car propelled by it. The patent, although not in issue, was considered by the circuit court of appeals for the Eighth circuit in a suit between the Adams Electric Railway Co. and the Lindell Railway Co., 23 C. C. A. 223, 77 Fed. 432, 452. It was directly involved in Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co. v. Union Ry. Co. (C. C.) 84 Fed. 641, decided by Judge Wheeler, whose decree was affirmed by the circuit court of appeals for the Second circuit…