Westinghouse v. Chartiers Val. Gas Co.

This is a suit in equity by George Westinghouse, Jr., and his licensee, the Philadelphia Company, against the Chartiers Valley Gas Company, for the infringement of letters patent No. 345,463, dated July 13, 1886, granted to Westinghouse as assignee of Morris S. Verner, the inventor. Verner’s invention was made in July, 1884, about the 15th of the qionth, and his application for letters patent was filed August 6, 1884. But in fact he had not then reduced the invention to any practical use, and he never did so. Pending his application, on February 2, 1885, he assigned his rights to…