Hunt Bros. Fruit-Packing Co. v. Cassiday
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to (lie Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. This was an action at Jaw by John W. Cassiday against the Hunt Brothers Fruit-Packing Company to recover damages for the infringement of certain letters patent.
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In Error to (lie Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. This was an action at Jaw by John W. Cassiday against the Hunt Brothers Fruit-Packing Company to recover damages for the infringement of certain letters patent. There was a judgment for plaintiff, which was reversed upon writ of error sued out by defendant, and (he cause remanded for further proceedings. 8 C. C. A. 525, 58 Fed. 257. At the second trial there was also judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
This writ of error is brought to review the judgment upon a second trial of an action at law for damages for the infringement of letters patent No. 172,608, of date January 27, 1876, issued to John W. Cassiday, for improvements in drying apparatus. The improvements covered by the patent refer to that class of fruit driers known as "stack driers,” and are embraced in two claims, — the first, for a system of fines for distributing hot air through the stack of trays at different points; the second, for a mechanism to raise the fruit trays vertically, so that a tray may be…
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