Legal Opinion

Sanitary Street Flushing Mach. Co. v. City of Amsterdam

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided December 14, 1915No. 161Published

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Sanitary Street Flushing Machine Company against the City of Amsterdam. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree holding a patent valid and infringed. The patent is No. 795,059, granted July 18, 1905, to Leopold F. Ottofy, for a “street flushing machine.”

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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Sanitary Street Flushing Machine Company against the City of Amsterdam. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree holding a patent valid and infringed. The patent is No. 795,059, granted July 18, 1905, to Leopold F. Ottofy, for a “street flushing machine.” The specification states that “in flushing or washing devices it is necessary to localize the distribution of water and to have it strike with considerable velocity at an angle…

1Opinion of the CourtLacombe, Circuit Judge

(after stating the facts as above). New patents have produced such a voluminous collection of judicial literature as this one has. It was last before us with an alleged infringing device in January, 1914, in the cause entitled St. Louis Trust Company v. Studebaker Company, opinion reported 211 Fed. 980, 128 C. C. A. 478. We then enumerated the prior decisions, as follows: St. Louis Street Flushing Machine Company v. American Street Flushing Machine Company, 156 Fed. 574, 84 C. C. A. 340. The same suit produced opinions reported in 180 Fed. 759, and 192 Fed. 121, 112 C. C. A. 582. American…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. St. Louis Street Flushing Mach. Co. v. American Street Flushing Mach. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1907
  2. St. Louis Union Trust Co. v. Studebaker Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1914
  3. American Street Flushing Mach. Co. v. St. Louis Street Flushing Mach. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1911
  4. American Street Flushing Co. v. D. Connolly Boiler Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1912
  5. American Street Flushing Mach. Co. v. St. Louis Street Flushing Mach. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri · 1910

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