Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co. v. Consolidated Car Heating Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
In Equity. Suit to restrain alleged infringement of United States letters patent to complainant, as assignee of R. M. Dixon, for car heating apparatus, No. 457,706, dated August 11, 1891, applied for November 26, 1888, and United States letters patent to John Q. C. Searle, Julia E. Searle, executrix, etc., for railway car heating apparatus, No. 707,361, dated August 19, 1902, and applied for March 23, 1888, renewed August 26, 1898, and for an accounting.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
This suit originally alleged infringement of the patent to William C. Baker, No. 411,915, as well as those to Dixon, assignor to complainant, No. 457,706, and to Julia E. Searle, executrix of John Q. C. Searle, No. 707,361, but during the taking of complainant’s rebuttal testimony the Baker patent was withdrawn from the controversy and will not be considered, except perhaps as a part of the art to which the patents now in suit relate. Both of these patents were applied for some years before they were issued; the Dixon patent November 26, 1888, and the Searle patent March…
2Cases cited30 opinions
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- Pickering v. McCulloughSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
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