Yancey v. Enright
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Suit in equity by Arthur Yancey against John W. Enright and others. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Suit in equity by Arthur Yancey against John W. Enright and others. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals. This was a bill in equity, filed on behalf of the plaintiff, who is appellant here, seeking to restrain the defendants, who are appellees here, from using an alleged infringing device of a patented machine to close and haul from the bed of the water seines used for catching shrimp. Upon the hearing in this court, appellant abandoned all claims of all bis patents,…
1Opinion of the CourtGrubb, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] The fourth claim of appellant’s patent, numbered 919,109, expresses the idea of his invention in these words:
“In seining apparatus, the combination of means for converging and directing up-wardly tbe lead lines of a seine, comprising a plurality of sets of suitably mounted closing and guiding rollers, said sets of rollers being spaced apart to allow of tbe passage of foreign matter apt to tangle in the web, adjacent to the lead lines.”
The novelty, if it exists, lies in a method of arranging and spacing the rollers, which help close and haul in the…
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