Holmes Electric Protective Co. v. Metropolitan Burglar Alarm Co.

The orator’s patent, No. 120,874, for an improvement in electric linings for safes, granted' to Edwin Holmes and * Henry C. Boome, November 14, 1871, appears to be for an electric *459lining to an outer covering for the safe, insulated from the safe, and so arranged that an attempt to get through the covering will affect the electrical conditions, and thereby give an alarm. The inventors could not have a valid patent for protecting safes by electricity any more than Morse conld for sending messages to a distance by that agency; neither could they for every form of device for that purpose, for…