Brooks v. Sacks
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a suit in equity by Louis Sacks against George Brooks, George K. Brooks, and Gardner G. Brooks, trading as Brooks & Go., for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 443,199, issued December 23, 1890, to Louis Sacks and Henry Richmond for an alleged improvement in boot or shoe lasts.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a suit in equity by Louis Sacks against George Brooks, George K. Brooks, and Gardner G. Brooks, trading as Brooks & Go., for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 443,199, issued December 23, 1890, to Louis Sacks and Henry Richmond for an alleged improvement in boot or shoe lasts. The circuit court entered a decree for an injunction and an account, and the defendants have appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
There is only one claim in this patent, and its pith is that the same last is made capable of being placed and held in a horizontal position or in an oblique one, at the option of the user, merely by reversing it. The essence of the device is a standard with a tenon at the upper end, one side of which tenon runs in a vertical line and the other side in an oblique line, and a last with a socket in it, which the tenon- fits exactly. When the last is fitted to the tenon in one oosition, it lies horizontally, or substantially so, and, when placed in the reverse position on…
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