Drainage Construction Co. v. Englewood Sewer Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
This was a bill by the Drainage Oons true lion Company against the Englewood Sewer Company ior infringement of a patent relating to sewage and drainage of towns. Defendant demurred to the bill on the ground that the patent, ou its face, disclosed no patentable invention.
1Opinion of the Court
GREEN, District Judge.
The bill of complaint in this case is filed to restrain the alleged infringement by the defendant of letters patent lío. 278,839, granted June 5, 1883, to the plaintiff, as assignee of George E. Waring, Jr., for an “improvement in sewering and draining towns.” The hill is in the usual form of such bills, and sets out the invention, the issuing of letters patent to the inventor, the infringement by the defendant, and the other formal parts of a bill ior injunction and account. To this bill the defendant has interposed a demurrer, and for cause thereof alleges that “it…
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