Stephenson v. Brooklyn Cross-Town Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. FOE THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. John Stephenson, the appellant, was the plaintiff in the Circuit Court. He brought his bill to restrain the infringement by the Brooklyn Cross-Town Railroad Company, the appellee, of three letters patent. The first was a patent dated September 16, 1873, granted to John A. O’Haire and W. A. Jones, as assignees of John A. O’Haire, the inventor, for “an improvement in operating car doors.”
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. FOE THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. John Stephenson, the appellant, was the plaintiff in the Circuit Court. He brought his bill to restrain the infringement by the Brooklyn Cross-Town Railroad Company, the appellee, of three letters patent. The first was a patent dated September 16, 1873, granted to John A. O’Haire and W. A. Jones, as assignees of John A. O’Haire, the inventor, for “an improvement in operating car doors.” The • second, dated March 30, 1875, was granted to the appellant “ for an improvement in signalling devices for…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justioe Woods,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
We shall consider each of the patents in the order above stated.
The invention described in the O’Haire patent consists of a combination and arrangement of devices by which the rear door of a street-car can. be opened and closed by the driver from the front platform where he stands, in order to let passengers into or out of the car.
The drawing by which the specification is illustrated shows the frame of-an ordinary street-car provided with a door which is supported upon and moves back and forth upon…
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