Leggett v. Avery
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This was a bill in equity filed by the appellants against the appellees for an injunction to restrain the latter from infringing certain letters-patent for an improvement in plows, and for an account of profits and an assessment of damages. The letters- patent were originally granted to one Matthew G. Slemmons on the ninth day of October, 1860, surrendered and reissued on the twenty-second day of June, 1869, extended for seven years from the ninth day of October, 1874, and again surrendered and reissued on the tenth day of November, 1874. One of the defences made by the defendants was, that…
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