Willimantic Linen Co. v. Clark Thread Co.

This is an ajiplication to open the interlocutory decree entered in the case, to give the defendants an opportunity of setting up an alleged new defense to the suit. The ground on which the application is made, as revealed in the moving papers, is that the defendants have been misled in preparing their defense by a false allegation in the bill of complaint. The suit was commenced February 13, 1872, by filing the bill, in which the erroneous allegation is made that the inventor, Conant, filed his application in the patent-office for his patent before the date of the sealing of the English…