Eureka Company v. Bailey Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts; the case being thus: The Bailey Company was the owner of- a reissued patent for an improved washing and wringing machine, the original of which had been issued to John Allender.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts; the case being thus: The Bailey Company was the owner of- a reissued patent for an improved washing and wringing machine, the original of which had been issued to John Allender. There had been several surrenders and reissues of this patent, the last of which was on the 22d July, 1865. The Eureka Company being engaged in the manufacture of clothes-wringing tnachines under other patents, one S. B. Rindge, its treasurer, professing to act as its agent, entered into two written indentures with the Bailey Company, through its general…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
1. We are satisfied that the agreements set up in the bill are the valid contracts of the defendant. Though the plaintiff was unable to produce any resolution or order in writing by the trustees or board of directors of the defendant corporation, and though the seal used was the private seal of one of its officers, instead of the corporate seal, neither of these is essential to the validity of the contract. We entertain no doubt that Rindge, the agent and one of the directors and treasurer of the Eureka Company, was authorized to execute the agreement, and if any doubt existed on that point,…
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