IVES v. Hamilton
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This was an action brought to recover damages for the infringement of certain letters-patent granted to Hamilton, the plaintiff below, for an improvement in sawmills. The defendants pleaded the general issue, with notice of special matter, setting up several prior inventions, amongst others that of one Isaac Straub. The plaintiff’s patent was dated the fifth day of December, 1865. His improvement, as described therein, consisted of the combination of the saw with a pair of curved guides at the upper end of the saw, and a lever, connecting-rod or pitman, straight guides, pivoted cross-head,…
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