Hotel Security Checking Co. v. Lorraine Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. On appeal from a decree dismissing the bill in an action on letters patent No. 500,073, for an improvement in the art of cash-registering, and account-checking, granted to John Tyler Hicks, June 20, 1893. The opinion of the Circuit Court is reported in 155 Fed. 298.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
The Hicks patent describes and claims a “method of and means for cash-registering and account-checking” designed to prevent frauds and peculation by waiters and cashiers in hotels and restaurants. The object of the alleged invention is accurately to check the account of the cashier and of each waiter. In carrying out the system, each waiter is provided with slips of paper, so marked as to distinguish them from those used by the other waiters in the same establishment. The person in charge of each department, *468which fills an order given by waiters, is provided with a sheet…
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