Fetter v. Newhall

This suit is brought upon reissued letters patent No. 8,121, dated March 12,1878, and granted to David E. Eetter, assignor, for an improvement in drive screws, the original of which was No. 110,839, dated January 10,1871. The assignee of the inventor assigned the patent to the oratrix, Mary B. Eetter, wife of the inventor, a resident of the’stateof New York, and she by her sole deed assigned an interest in it to one Lewis, who assigned the same to the orator the Eetter Drive Screw Company. The original patent was for a drive screw for driving into wood like a spike, but to be removed only by…