National Meter Co. v. Thomson Meter Co.

TOWNSEND, District Judge.

Final bearing on bill and answer raising questions of validity and infringement of tbe first and third claims of complainant’s patent, No. 547,178, granted October 1,1895, and of tbe two claims of patent No. 527,535, granted October 16, 1894, to L. H. Nash for improvements in disk water meters. Tbe class of meters to which these patents relate, tbe construction of tbe patent under which defendant herein claims to make tbe meters alleged to infringe, and tbe relations of tbe parties hereto have been discussed in tbe suit of this defendant against this complainant beard…