Bridge v. Excelsior Manuf'g Co.

DILLON, Circuit Judge.

This is a bill in equity by the complainants, Bridge, Beach & Co., against the Excelsior Manufacturing Company, for an infringement of letters patent, No. 180,001, granted to Esek Bussey and C. A. McLeod on the 18th day of July, 1876, for an “improvement in cooking stoves.” Complainants have been duly invested by Bussey, the patentee, with the interest of the patentee in the territory embraced in this district. The answer of the defendant denies the infringement charged upon it, and alleges the invalidity of the patent (the Bussey patent) by reason of certain prior…