Burdell v. Denig

This suit was commenced on the seventh of October, 1861. At a trial thereof had several years since, plaintiffs recovered a judgment for $125. This judgment was reversed by the supreme court and the cause remanded to this court for a retrial. Upon its* return the parties began to plead de novo. The case, as made by plaintiffs’ amended declaration, is a claim for damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiffs by reason of an infringement of a patent, described in the pleadings, in consequence, as is averred, of the construction and use of seven sewing-machines, by defendants, from…