Legal Opinion

Smith v. Hamilton

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont

Decided October 12, 1895Published

This was a bill in equity by L. Anton Smith and another against Jamim H. Hamilton for alleged infringement of a patent.

1Opinion of the Court

WHEELER, District Judge.

This suit is brought upon patent No. 455,771, dated July 14, 1891, and granted to the plaintiffs, for a truss for hernia, having a body spring, for holding the pads, arched past the hips to about the same height at front and back, and held by a belt at .the back, and resting in an open, oblique slot through a post fastened to the pad by a screw from the slot through that end of the post into the pad, which is adjusted to, and held in *239place by a set screw through, the other end of the post into the slot, and there pressing upon the spring. The claims are for:

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2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Bonsack Mach. Co. v. ElliottCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1895
  2. Sharp v. TifftU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1880
  3. Rowell v. LindsayU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin · 1881

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