Ransome v. Hyatt
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. This was an action at law by Thaddeus Hyatt against Ernest L. Ransome and others for infringement of a patent for improvements in compositions for floors, roofs, pavements, etc. In the circuit court there was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff in a nominal sum, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error was the plaintiff in an action at law brought to recover damages for the infringement of the Hyatt letters patent. No. 206,112’, of date July 16, 1878, for an improvement in composition floors, roofs, pavements, etc. The specification of the patent refers to what are claimed to be “new and useful improvements in the use and application of hydraulic cements and concretes in combination with metal as a building material,” etc., and describes the building material so referred to as hydraulic cement, “concrete,” etc., and describes the combination…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Miller v. Eagle Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Corning v. BurdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
- Blanchard v. PutnamSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- American Nicholson Pavement Co. v. ElizabethUnited States Circuit Court · 1870
- Norton v. Eagle Automatic Can Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California · 1893
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