Henry v. City of Los Angeles

TRIPPET, District Judge.

This is a suit in which the complainant claims that the defendant is infringing a patent owned by the complainant and granted to one Lamar Lyndon. The patent was granted for an electro-mechanical water wheel governor. It will not be necessary for the court to describe fully this patent, or the rlaimg made in it. The purposes which were sought to be .accomplished by the invention are described in a general way in the first paragraph of the specification, as follows:

“The governors at present employed to regulate the water supply to the water wheel in general simply…