Kneass v. Schuylkill Bank

(charging jury). This is an action to recover damages for a violation of the plaintiff’s patent right. The declaration states the granting of the patent to the plaintiff, as the inventor of a new and useful improvement in printing on the hack or reverse face of bank notes or bills, as an additional security against counterfeit-ure; and the breach laid in the declaration is, that the defendants did, without the consent or license of the plaintiff, make, devise, use, and sell the thing so invented, in violation, &c. To this declaration the defendants have pleaded the general issue, without…