Legal Opinion

New York Scaffolding Co. v. Whitney

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided May 12, 1915No. 4215PublishedCited by 49 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska; Page Morris, Judge. Suit by the New York Scaffolding Company against Egbert Whitney. From a decree for defendant, the Scaffolding Company appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

The New York Scaffolding Company, the owner of letters patent No. 959,008, for an improved scaffolding *454supporting means, issued May 24, 1910, to E. H. Henderson, on an application filed June 19, 1909, brought a suit against Egbert Whitney for contributory infringement of claims 1 and 3 of its patent by the manufacture and sale of the hoisting device and the frame thereof described in the patent to Whitney issued July 18, 1911, on an application filed January 28, 1911. There was a decree for the defendant in the court below, which this appeal challenges. The defenses…

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