Spring v. Domestic Sewing Mach. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
[This was a hill in equity by Charles Spring and others against the Domestic Sewing Machine Company for the infringement of letters patent No. 23,007, granted to complainants May 10, 1800. Heard on motion for a provisional injunction.)
1Opinion of the Court
NIXON, District Judge.
I am not satisfied that this motion for a provisional injunction ought to prevail. It is asked for on two grounds: (1) on account of a decree of a court of equity, establishing the validity of the complainants’ patent; (2) public acquiescence.
1. With regard to the judicial decree, the opinion of the circuit court for the district of Massachusetts was, first, against the patent, declaring it a nullity. Doubtless for proper and sufficient reasons, the decree was vacated and an order entered “that the agreement of the parties annexed to a petition marked B be confirmed,…
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