Ingersoll v. Turner

Nixon, D. J.

This is a suit in equity to restrain the infringement of letters patent No. .119,705, issued to E. A. Heath on the tenth day of Oetober, 1871, for a metallic cuspidor. The hill of complaint prays for an injunction, account, and assessment of damages. The answer denies that Heath was the original and first inventor of the alleged improvement in cuspidors described and claimed in his letters patent, hut that he was anticipated by one William H. Top-ham, to whom letters patent were granted on the second of August, 1870. The word “cuspidor” is derived from the Por. tugúese verb cuspo,…