Williams v. American String-Wrapper Co.

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

For a statement of this case reference is made to the opinion handed down at the last session of this court wherein it was held that the patent in suit, No. 558,244, issued on April. 14, 1896, to Benajah Williams, for a wrapper for newspapers, etc., in view of patent No.,519,185, granted to P. J. Ogle on May 1, 1894, was lacking in patentable novelty. A .petition for a rehearing was presented showing, on the undisputed evidence in the record, that before Ogle had conceived of his design Williams had made samples of the wrapper for which his patent was afterwards granted,…