Stainthorp v. Humiston
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
This was a bill in equity [by Joseph Stain-thorp and Stephen Seguine against Willis Humiston), filed to restrain the defendant from infringing letters patent for “improvement in machines for making candles” [No. 12,492], granted to John Stainthorp, March 6, 1855. A motion for an injunction in the same case is reported [Case No. 13,280].
1Opinion of the Court
HALL, District Judge.
This is a suit in which the plaintiffs ask for an injunction and account, and it is founded upon a patent “for a new and useful improvement in machines for making candles,” granted to the plaintiff, Stainthorp, March 6, 1855.
The patent was granted to Stainthorp, as a citizen of the United States, and the defendant, by his answer, not only denied the alleged infringement and interposed the defenses of want of novelty and want of utility in the patented invention, but also insisted that the patent was void, because the pat-entee was not a citizen of the United States, but…
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