Wooster v. Thornton

This suit is brought upon reissued letters patent No. 5,180, dated December 10, 1870, and granted to the orator as assignee of Alexander Douglass, for an improved folding guide for turning in the edges of cloth or other material, preparatory to sowing, for binding and other purposes. The defendant offered no evidence and did not appear at the hearing; the patent had been several times adjudged to be valid; the evidence of the orator showed infringement by the defendant; and a decree was entered adjudging that the patent was valid, that the defendant had infringed, and that an account be taken…