Torrey v. Hancock
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for -the District of Kansas. Suit in equity by Nina Kittle Hancock, Administratrix, against George H. Torrey and others. Decree for complainant (170 Fed. 600), and defendants appeál.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for -the District of Kansas. Suit in equity by Nina Kittle Hancock, Administratrix, against George H. Torrey and others. Decree for complainant (170 Fed. 600), and defendants appeál. This was a suit to restrain infringement of United States patent Ño. 556,-972, issued March 24, 1896, upon the application of Clement A. Hardy, filed July 31, 1895, to his assignee C. A. Keating for alleged new and useful improvements in rotary disk plows. The suit was originally brought by Milton T. Hancock as assignee of the rights of Keating in some designated…
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
The second claim of the patent in: suit is the only one in controversy; It reads as follows:
“In a rotary plow, the combination with a plow-beam, of a box-bearing ar-1 ranged on the plow-beam, an axle rotatable in tke:box-béaring, a plowing-disk secured to the said axle, rotated solely by the .natural draft thereof and the friction of the soil, set diagonally to the line-of draft and inclined out of a vertical plane for cutting the furrow and turning the soil therefrom:, a furrow-jwheel mounted on an axle at the same side of the plow-beam ■ as the plowing-disk and arranged…
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