Watson v. Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE ' DISTRICT OF INDIANA. In equity. The court stated the ease in its opinion as follows: This was a bill filed by appellant against the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway Company, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District' of Indiana, alleging an infringement of letters patent No. 203,226, granted to him for an improvement in grain-car doors, bearing date the 30th day of April,…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE ' DISTRICT OF INDIANA. In equity. The court stated the ease in its opinion as follows: This was a bill filed by appellant against the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway Company, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District' of Indiana, alleging an infringement of letters patent No. 203,226, granted to him for an improvement in grain-car doors, bearing date the 30th day of April, 1878. The complainant averred, in his bill, that the patent was intended to secure and did secure to him “ the sole and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The proof of the use of grain-car doors by the defendant, was contained in a stipulation, whereby it was agreed “ that the defendant had hauled over its line of road, in said State of Indiana, freight cars belonging to the Chicago, Eock Island and Pacific Eailway Company, having a solid outside door, like an ordinary freight car, and an inner flexible sliding grain door of less height than the opening in the side of the car, the grain door sliding- in grooves like the grooves shown, in the patent of Martin M. Crooker, of May- 26, 1868, and the slats composing the door being attached to each…
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