Adams v. Burks
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
In equity. Bill in equity [by James Adams against Alpheus Burks] for an injunction to restrain alleged infringement of letters-patent [No. 38,713] for an improvement in coffin lids granted James S. Merrill and George W. Homer, May 26, 1863, and for an account. The defendant filed a plea to the whole bilL The pleadings and facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPLEY, District Judge.
The complainant In this case is the assignee of a territorial right, for the towns of Natick and Sherbom in Massachusetts, in the patent issued to Merrill & Homer, for a new and useful improvement in coffin lids. The defendant is charged in the bill with an infringement of the complainant’s rights under the patent, in the town of Natick. The defendant by plea sets out in defence that Merrill & Homer have assigned to Lockhart & Seelye of Cambridge, all their right, title, and interest in the invention secured by the letters-patent, for, to, and in a circle whose radius…
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