Wirt v. Hicks

This suit is brought upon letters patent No. 260,134, granted June 27, 1882, to Marvin C. Stone, and No. 311,534, granted February 3, 1885, to the orator, for fountain pens, in which the ink is led to the nibs by capillary attraction between a lip and the pen, and in those of the latter the ink is brought within reach of the attraction by an extension of the lip into the reservoir. The defendants’ pens are made under George H. Sackett, and letters patent No. 349,753, granted to him September 28, 1886. These inventions were under consideration on substantially the same evidence in Sackett v.…