Adair v. Thayer

Wheeler, D. J.

This cause has now, after final hearing and decree for an injunction and an account for an infringement of a patent for a pump,* been heard upon a motion tore-open the case and admit'newly-discovered defences.

The motion is founded upon English letters patent No. II, 473, granted December 3, 1846, to Thomas Craddock, for improvements in steam-engines and boilers, and machinery connected therewith, including, among many other things, a. pump. The phmp there patented does not appear to be sufficiently like either the orator ’s patented pump or defendant’s, pump, adjudged to be an…