Legal Opinion
Rice v. Boss
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
Decided May 11, 1891PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, J.
This is an action in equity, founded upon letters patent No. 172,608, granted to John W. Cassidy, January 25, 1876, for an improved fruit-drying apparatus. On the 4th of March, 1881, the pat-entee conveyed to the complainant the right, under the patent, for the county of Wayne in this state, “to use and manufacture and sell rights to use in said county, and in no other place or places.” The defendant insists that this instrument is not a territorial assignment, but a license merely, and that the complainant has no standing to maintain this suit alone. The patent granted to Cassidy “the…
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