Elizabeth v. Pavement Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This suit was brought by the American Nicholson Pavement Company against the city of Elizabeth, N. J., George W. Tubbs, and the New Jersey Wood-Paving Company, a corporation of New Jersey, upon a patent issued to Samuel Nicholson, dated Aug. 20, 1867, for a new and improved wooden pavement, being a second reissue of a patent issued to said Nicholson Aug. 8, 1854. The reissued patent was extended in 1868 for a further term of seven years. A copy of it is appended to the bill; and, in the specification, it is declared that the nature and object of the invention consists in providing a process…
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