Brooks v. Jenkins
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Ohio
[This was an issue to a jury, out of chancery, tried before Mr. Justice McLean. The original suit in equity was for the infringement of letters patent for a machine for “planing, grooving, and cutting boards and dressing brick,” granted to William Wood-worth, of New York, on December 28, 1828. Woodworth died prior to February 14, 1838, and the patent was extended upon the application of, and in the name of, the administrator for seven years, from December 27, 1842.]2 [The…
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[This was an issue to a jury, out of chancery, tried before Mr. Justice McLean. The original suit in equity was for the infringement of letters patent for a machine for “planing, grooving, and cutting boards and dressing brick,” granted to William Wood-worth, of New York, on December 28, 1828. Woodworth died prior to February 14, 1838, and the patent was extended upon the application of, and in the name of, the administrator for seven years, from December 27, 1842.]2 [The original suit was brought by Moses Brooks and Joseph L. Morris against Benjamin Bicknell and Ebenezer Jenkins.] [For cuts…
1Opinion of the CourtMcLEAN, Circuit Justice
[charging jury]. This is an issue directed out of chancery. The pleadings are filed and so made up as to try every material fact involving the validity of Woodworth’s patent for planing boards, and also the renewal of that patent On the trial an objection was made to a certified copy of the patent, because it contained specifications and a drawing of the machine, which were not attached to a certified copy of the same patent, that was used at a former term on a motion for an injunction in this case. The court held that as the copy offered in evidence was duly certified under the act of…
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