National Folding-Box & Paper Co. v. Brown & Bailey Co.

DALLAS, Circuit Judge,

The bill of complaint in this cose charges infringement of the first claim of letters patent No. 286,3(50, dated October 9, 1883, issued to Arthur G. Wilson for “paper boxes and lid of boxes,” which is as follows:

“(1) A box or a lid of a box having turned-in portions provided with apertures or openings, and an end piece provided with a tongue or tongues folded over the upper edges of the uirned-in portions, and down into the apertures or openings therein, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.”

This claim was considered by the circuit court for the Eastern…