Brill v. Third Ave. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit for infringement of a patent. On final hearing. This bill in equity is based upon the infringement of claims 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, and 27 of letters patent No. 478,218, applied for June 26, 1891, and issued on July 5, 1892, to George Martin Brill, for an improvement in car trucks.
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In Equity. Suit for infringement of a patent. On final hearing. This bill in equity is based upon the infringement of claims 1, 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, and 27 of letters patent No. 478,218, applied for June 26, 1891, and issued on July 5, 1892, to George Martin Brill, for an improvement in car trucks. Although the patentee conceived the idea of the invention of claims 1 and 2 in May, 1889, and made rough sketches of it, he laid it aside, and did not take it up again until November, 1890. He made drawings in December, and completed the trucks containing the whole invention in January, 1891.…
1Opinion of the CourtShipman, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). After electricity was substituted upon city railroads as a motive power to move cars formerly drawn by horses, the railroad corporations were subjected to great expense, and the passengers to severe inconvenience, in consequence of the oscillation of the cars from end to end, or “galloping” motion as it was called. The horse cars were 16 feet long, and had a wheel base or distance between the two pairs of wheels of 6 to feet. The new electric cars were from 18 to 22 feel-long, but, in consequence of the short radii of curves in city streets where cars turn from…
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