United States ex rel. West v. Doughty
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[This was a bill in equity by Joseph L West and others against Samuel H. Doughty, praying the surrender of certain letters patent, No. 25,701, issued October 4, 1859, reissued December 27, 1859 (No. 870), and again August 1, 1870. A trial under the first issue of this patent will be found in Case No. 4,029, and under the second reissue in Case No. 4,028.]
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
This is a demurrer to the pleading filed by the plaintiffs in this suit before the commencement thereof. The pleading styles itself a “bill or information,” but is substantially, in form, a bill in equity. It states, that it is brought at the relation of Joseph I. West and three other persons wbo are named. The prayer of the bill is, that the defendant may be decreed to deliver up and surrender certain reissued letters patent, issued to him by the United States, August 1st, 1865, for an “improvement in skeleton skirts,” to be can-celled, aqd may be enjoined from…
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