Lyman Ventilating & Refrigerator Co. v. Lalor

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

This suit, and several others, are brought on reissued letters patent granted to Stephen Cutter, March 10th, 1S74 [No. 5,786], for an “improvement in methods of cooling and ventilating rooms.” The title to this patent is vested in the plaintiffs for the whole of the United States, except the Eastern district of New York, and that part of the city of New York lying westerly of Broadway and Fifth avenue, and a few counties in New Jersey, the title for such excepted territory being vested in the Lyman Patent Refrigerator Company. The original letters patent were…