Robinson v. Sutter

Blodgett, D. J.

This is a suit for infringement of letters patent granted by.the United States to complainant, Abraham Bobinson, on the tenth of June, 1879, for an improved apparatus for resweating tobacco. The defence set up is — First, that defendant does not infringe complainant’s patent; second, that complainant’s patent is void for want of novelty. It seems from the proof that, in the manipulation of tobacco, it is deemed very desirable to obtain a dark uniform color in the leaf, especially of that to be used for cigar wrappers ; that in the natural sweating which the leaf undergoes in…