Bliss v. Brooklyn
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
[In equity. This was a bill in equity, brought [by William H. Bliss] to restrain the defendant from infringing letters patent for an “improvement in hose-couplings,” granted to Robert Lawson and William H. Bliss, February 22, 1859, and reissued to plaintiff December 21, 1809, and referred to more particularly in the report of the case of Bliss v. Haight [Case No. 1,548]. It was insisted, on behalf of the defendant, that the city of Brooklyn was not liable for the acts of her…
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[In equity. This was a bill in equity, brought [by William H. Bliss] to restrain the defendant from infringing letters patent for an “improvement in hose-couplings,” granted to Robert Lawson and William H. Bliss, February 22, 1859, and reissued to plaintiff December 21, 1809, and referred to more particularly in the report of the case of Bliss v. Haight [Case No. 1,548]. It was insisted, on behalf of the defendant, that the city of Brooklyn was not liable for the acts of her officers, by virtue of the provisions of section 39 of the act of the legislature of New York, passed March 27, 1802.…
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity brought to compel the city of Brooklyn to account for the use of a patent hose-coupling and for an injunction. The complainant’s rights are based upon a reissued patent for an improvement in hose-coupling, dated December 1st, 1809. The use of the coupling by the city is undisputed, and the utility of the invention is thus proved. Neither the novelty of the invention nor the complainant’s right to the patent are placed in issue, but the defence is mainly rested upon the act of the legislature of this state, passed March 27, 1S02 (Laws 1S02, c.…
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