Campbell v. City of New York
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Bill for infringement of a patent. On rehearing. For former opinion, see 9 Fed. Rep. 500.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
This suit is brought upon letters patent No. 42,920, granted to James Knibbs for an improvement in steam fire-engines, consisting of a relief valve. He was the engineer of a steam fire-engine, called the “Arba Reade,” of.the city of Troy, and made the invention,' and applied it to that engine in 1860, and it was used on that engine as *505occasion required afterwards. It operated well, but he thought that experience might suggest improvements. In 1861 the city of Troy ordered another engine, to be called the “J. C. Osgood” to be built for its use by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, of…
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