Fond Du Lac County v. May
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. At law for the infringement of letters patent. Yerdict for plaintiff and judgment on the verdict. Defendant sued out this writ of error. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
This is an action at law, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, on the 26th of September, 1885, by Sarah May against the county of Eond du Lac, a corporation of the State of Wisconsin, to recover damages for the infringement of letters patent No. 25,662, granted to Edwin May, October 4, 1859, for fourteen years from that day, for an “ improvement in the construction of prisons.”
The specification and claims Of the patent are as follows: “Be it known that I, Edwin May, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented…
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