Mast, Foos & Co. v. Dempster Mill Manuf'g Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska
This was a hill in equity by Mast, Foos & Co. against the Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company for alleged infringement of a patent relating to an improvement in windmills. The cause was submitted for final hearing on the pleadings and proofs.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIBAS, District Judge.
The bill in this case is based upon letters patent Tío. 433,531, applied for by Samuel W. Martin, and issued to the complainant corporation, as the assignee of the inventor, and covers an improvement in the machinery of windmills, it being-charged that the defendant company is engaged in the manufacture and sale of windmills which embody the improvement covered by the above-named letters patent, and is therefore an infringer upon the rights of complainant. To this bill the defendant company answers, denying infringement, and averring that the combination described in…
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