Fowler v. City of New York
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 570,451, issued November 3, 1896, to Benjamin F. Carpenter for what is called a “Bitransit Railway System.”
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The patentee points out in the specifications that when in any system of transit there is but one track with turnouts, or two tracks only in one or adjacent streets, — one track for cars running in one direction, the other for cars running in an opposite or returning direction, — but one kind of traffic can be maintained, either rapid trains,- stopping at long intervals, or slow trains, stopping at shorter intervals. A mixed service on such a road is secured by running the slow trains on sidings, and thus clearing the tracks for an occasional fast train, which is…
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