Legal Opinion
Butler v. Shaw
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Decided August 20, 1884PublishedCited by 30 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the Court
Gray, Justice.
This is a bill in equity under section 4915 of the Bevised Statutes, filed in this court on August 16, 1882, by Francis G. Butler, a citizen of Connecticut, and the Vermont Farm Machine *322Company, a Yermont corporation, as his assignee, against Betsey H. Shaw, a citizen of Massachusetts, assignee of Philander Shaw, to obtain an adjudication that Butler is entitled to a patent for improvements in milk-cans, which has been refused him by the commissioner of patents, upon an interference declared between him and the defendant.
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