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General Electric Co. v. City of Dunkirk

District Court, W.D. New York

Decided June 11, 1913PublishedCited by 1 opinion

In Equity. Suit by the General Electric Company against the City of Dunkirk and the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Dunkirk. On final hearing.

1Opinion of the Court

HAZEL, District Judge.

The patent in suit, No. 924,546, granted June 8, 1909, to William L- R. Emmet, assignor to complainant corporation, relates to an improvement in the construction of steam turbines, and is especially adapted to the utilization of steam for driving dynamo electric machinery at a high rate of velocity. In its operation, as is commonly known, the turbine is different from the reciprocating engine, in that it has revolving disks, or wheels, or a drum surrounded by a plurality of vanes or buckets uniformly spaced side by side, or one succeeding another, forming a passage…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Hobbs v. BeachSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
  2. Agawam Co. v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
  3. Howard v. Detroit Stove WorksSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  4. Canda v. Michigan Malleable Iron Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1903
  5. Appert v. Brownsville Plate Glass Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania · 1904

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3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Watters v. Kny-Scheerer Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1932

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