Legal Opinion
Cheatham Electric Switching Device Co. v. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided October 16, 1915PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Equity. Suit by the Cheatham Electric Switching Device Company against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company, the Nassau Electric Railroad Company, the Brooklyn, Queens County & Suburban Railroad Company, and the Transit Development Company. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
CHATFIELD, District Judge.
This action is based upon claim 3 of patent No. 612,702, issued October 18, 1898, upon an application filed March 12th of that year. The claim is as follows :
“3. Id an electrically controlled switch-operating mechanism, the combination with a trolley wire and trolley wheel, and. a double solenoid having a core armature connected with the switch point rail, of parallel contact strips supported at opposite sides of the trolley wire and having upward inclined ends, one of said strips being integral throughout and the other being divided into three sections, an…
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