Legal Opinion

Steam Stone Cutter Co. v. Shortsleeves

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont

Decided June 7, 1879PublishedCited by 6 opinions

[This was a bill in equity by the Steam Stone Cutter Company against David Short-sleeves for the infringement of letters patent No. 40,5S4, granted to J. G. Wardwell November 10, 1863; reissued October 10, 1865, Nos. 2,087 and 2,088.]

1Opinion of the Court

WHEELER, District Judge.

This cause has been heard on the motion of the plaintiff for a preliminary injunction. The material facts appearing from the bill, answer and affidavits, on which the case is now presented, are, that George J. Wardwell, the patentee of inventions in steam stone cutting machines, granted to the Sutherland Falls Marble Co., a corporation, “the right to use said patented machine, or any number of said machines,” “in their quarry at Sutherland Falls.” The plaintiff has since succeeded to the rights of Wardwell, and another corporation, by the same name, to the rights of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Coolidge v. HagerSupreme Court of Vermont · 1870
  2. Tracy v. AthertonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1862

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Edison Electric Light Co. v. Peninsular Light, Power & Heat Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1900
  2. Edison Electric Light Co. v. Peninsular Light, Power & Heat Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Michigan · 1899
  3. Preformed Line Products Co. v. Fanner Manufacturing Co.District Court, N.D. Ohio · 1962
  4. Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Illinois Telephone Const. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1906
  5. Illingworth v. SpauldingU.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey · 1890

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