Miller v. Eagle Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OP IOWA. Ix equit}7 for the infringement of letters patent. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice JacksoN
The appellee, as assignee of letters patent No. 222,707, dated December 16,1879, and No. 212,197, dated June 7,1881, issued to. Edgar A. Wright, for certain new and useful-improvements in wheeled cultivators, brought this suit against the appellants, who were the defendants in the court below, for the alleged infringement thereof.
The defences made in that court were that Wright was not the first and original inventor of the improvements described in the patents'; that the same were shown and described in previous devices.and letters patent, set forth in the answer; that the'invention shown in…
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