Collender v. Griffith & Co.

This suit is brought on re-issued letters patent granted to the plaintiff June 1,1875, for an “improvement in billiard tables, ” the original patent having been granted to him, as the inventor, December 23, 1873. The specification says:

“Previous to my invention it has been customary, in the construction of billiard tables, to form the body of the table with vertical sides, extending downwards from lines a short distance within the outer edges of the cushion rails, or with what are generally designated as straight or vertical side rails; and, previous to my invention, nearly all billiard…