Pitts v. Jameson
New York Supreme Court
This was an appeal by the defendants from a judgment entered against them, at a special term, upon the verdict of a jury. The action was brought against the defendants as administrators of Horace D. Jameson, deceased.
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This was an appeal by the defendants from a judgment entered against them, at a special term, upon the verdict of a jury. The action was brought against the defendants as administrators of Horace D. Jameson, deceased. The complaint alleged that on the 20th day of March, 1846, the plaintiff, John A. Pitts, and the said Horace D. Jameson entered into a certain indented agreement, signed by the said Pitts and Jameson, and sealed with their seals, by which said agreement, after reciting that letters patent had been issued by the United States, bearing date the 29th day of December, 1837, to John…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Johnson, J.
The contract entered into between the plaintiff and Horace D. Jameson the intestate, on the 20th of March, 1846, did not operate as an assignment or transfer to the latter of the right and title secured by the letters patent, to the invention, within the territorial limits of the state of Ohio. It was a mere agreement, which secured to the intestate the exclusive right to make and use, and to sell to others for use, the machine invented, within that state, except such as the plaintiff, who still retained the title or ownership of the right, might choose to make and…
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