Electric Ry. Co. v. Jamaica & B. R.
District Court, E.D. New York
This was a suit by the Electric Railway Company of the United States against the Jamaica & Brooklyn Railroad Company for infringement of a patent.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, District Judge.
This is a final hearing on a bill in equity alleging infringement of letters patent No. 407,188, granted July 16, 1889, to Stephen D. Field, for improvements in electric railways, and assigned to the complainant. The defenses are: Denial of infringement, anticipation by prior patents printed publications aqd prior inventions, insufficient description and specification, want of patentable novelty, and abandonment.
The evidence of infringement applies to the first claim only of said patent, which is as follows:
“The combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth, of…
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