Parker v. Brant
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
[These were bills in equity by Oliver H. P. Parker against Joseph Bryant and others.] These were suits in equity, for the infringement of the patent of Zebulon and Austin Parker, [granted Oct. 19, 1829,] more particularly described in the ease of Parker v. Hulme [Case No. 10,740]. Upon a motion for provisional injunction against the defendants, objection was made that the bills contained no averment of prior adjudication, to support the application.
1Opinion of the Court
GRIER, Circuit Justice.
I take this occasion to say, that the court has no doubt of the validity of the complainant’s patent. That question has been fully settled here, by a trial at law, of extraordinary duration, and closeness of research. The report of the case of Parker v. Hulme, [supra], by my Brother KANE, who presided at the trial, and information derived from the affidavits and printed works, which have been read on both sides, during the present hearing, as well as the acquaintance of the subject which I derived while engaged in the trial of another case growing out of this patent,…
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