De Loriea v. Whitney
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was an action by Joseph F. De Loriea and Griffin Place, executors of James W. McDonald, against Arthur E. Whitney, for damages for infringement of leiters patent No. 210,797, issued December 10, 1878, for a machine for unhairing and scouring hides and skins. On trial in the circuit court the judge instructed the jury to find for defendant.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was an action by Joseph F. De Loriea and Griffin Place, executors of James W. McDonald, against Arthur E. Whitney, for damages for infringement of leiters patent No. 210,797, issued December 10, 1878, for a machine for unhairing and scouring hides and skins. On trial in the circuit court the judge instructed the jury to find for defendant. The ruling in the circuit court was as follows (COLT, Circuit Judge): The evidence being closed in this case, and the requests for rulings having been presented by…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
When this case was before this court on a prior occasion, the exceptions were not framed to bring before us the issue which is now raised as to the construction of the plaintiffs’ patent, but only the proper manner of submitting to the jury certain other issues, which, it was- not disputed, were proper to be submitted to it in some form. We are now asked to consider the question raised by the following extract from the record:
“After the evidence was all in, and counsel had submitted requests for rulings, the presiding judge directed the jury to return a verdict for the…
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