Legal Opinion
Steam-gauge & Lantern Co. v. Meyrose
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
Decided March 29, 1886PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Equity. Plea in bar.
1Opinion of the Court
Brewer, J.,
(orally.) In the cases of Steam-gauge & Lantern Co. v. Meyrose there are pleas of a former adjudication. The pleas set out that in 1880, in an action between the assignors of these plaintiffs and this defendant, a decree was entered dismissing the bill on the merits, and it is contended that that is an adjudication and estoppel against these bills. The complainants allege in this bill their patent, and that the defendants at this time and since that decree have been making lanterns which are an infringement upon their patent. How far can that decree on the merits, dismissing the…
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