Legal Opinion
Lockwood v. Cleaveland
United States Circuit Court
Decided February 28, 1881PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Equity. Motion to Dismiss Cross-bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Nixon, D. J.
This is a motion to dismiss a cross-bill, as improvidontly filed. The circumstances under which the bill was filed are as follows: On the.seventh of September, 1875, the commissioner of patents issued to Rhodes Lockwood letters patent No. 167,455, for “Improvement in India-rubber erasers.” On the twenty-fifth of May, 1877, one Francis TI. Holton, claiming to be the original and first inventor of a certain improvement in erasive rubber, by an assignment in writing, sold and transferred unto Orestes Cleaveland all his right, title, and interest in and to said improvement, which…
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