Brill v. St. Louis Car Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

The bill charges that the complainant is the owner of several letters patent of the United States, numbered, respectively, 373,639 (dated November 22, 1887), 418,438 (dated December 31, 1889), 425,653 (dated April 15, 1890), 428,068 (dated May 20, 1890), and 430,418 (dated June 17, 1890),—all for certain new and useful improvements in car trucks, railway cars, and motor trucks for cars,—and that the defendants had, prior to the institution of this suit, infringed the same by the conjoint use thereof in manufacturing cars, and also by selling cars so manufactured. The…