Wallace & Tiernan Co. v. Village of Le Roy

HAZEL, District Judge.

This suit in equity relates to the infringement of patent No. 1,007,647, dated October 31, 1911, owned by the plaintiff company, and issued to Carl R. Darnail for process of purifying or sterilizing water and sewage by the use of anhydrous ehlorin gas in sufficient quantity to destroy the bacteria and other living organisms that may be contained in the fluid. The specification stated that use of dry chlorin, which is sold commercially in a liquid state, has not before been attempted for the purification of water, and for that purpose it is superior to chlorine compounds,…