American Hide & Leather Splitting & Dressing Mach. Co. v. American Tool & Mach. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
At law. This was an action on the case, tried by Judge Shepley and a jury, and brought [by the American Hide & Leather Splitting & Dressing Machine Company against the American Tool & Machine Company and George H. Fox] to recover damages for the infringement of letters patent for an “improvement in leather-splitting machines,” granted to Joseph F. Flanders and his as-signee, Enos G. Allen, August 14, 1860, [No. 29,649.] The patented invention was an improvement upon and…
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At law. This was an action on the case, tried by Judge Shepley and a jury, and brought [by the American Hide & Leather Splitting & Dressing Machine Company against the American Tool & Machine Company and George H. Fox] to recover damages for the infringement of letters patent for an “improvement in leather-splitting machines,” granted to Joseph F. Flanders and his as-signee, Enos G. Allen, August 14, 1860, [No. 29,649.] The patented invention was an improvement upon and particularly applicable to leather-splitting machines, in which was employed a “belt-lcnife,” consisting of an endless band…
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPLEY, Circuit Judge,
[charging jury.] This is an action brought by the American Hide and Leather Splitting and Dressing Machine Company, as plaintiff, against the American Tool and Machine Company and George H. Fox, as defendants, for an alleged infringement of letters-patent of the United States, granted Aug. 14, 1860, to Joseph F. Flanders, the alleged inventor, jointly with one Enos G. Allen, to whom Flanders had assigned one-half of his interest prior to the issue of the letters-patent, which, by mesne assignments, are alleged to have passed to the plaintiff corporation before the date…
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