Brooks v. Miller

This case is that of a bill in equity filed by the complainant, who alleges that he is the patentee of an invention for constructing machines for the manufacture of excelsior, a material employed in the making of mattresses. He asserts that the defendant is infringing his patent by using amachine substantially like his, and for the same purpose, at Benton Harbor, and he prays for damages and for an injunction. No provisional injunction was, however, applied for. The patent has expired pending the suit, but not until a year or more after the bill was filed. The case came on to be heard at a…