Rockafellow v. Baker
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to tbe Common Pleas of Crawford county. This was an appeal by John Iiockafellow from the decree of the court below dismissing a bill in equity which had been filed by him against George W. Baker, praying for an injunction to restrain the respondent from selling, assigning, or transferring two lots of ground in the borough of Cochranton, which had been conveyed to him by complainant in consideration of the transfer of a patent right for an “ improved bedstead…
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Certiorari to tbe Common Pleas of Crawford county. This was an appeal by John Iiockafellow from the decree of the court below dismissing a bill in equity which had been filed by him against George W. Baker, praying for an injunction to restrain the respondent from selling, assigning, or transferring two lots of ground in the borough of Cochranton, which had been conveyed to him by complainant in consideration of the transfer of a patent right for an “ improved bedstead fastening” for the states of New York and Michigan; which complainant averred was not an improvement, as had been falsely and…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbe opinion of tbe court was delivered,
by Woodward, J.
Baker, a cabinet-maker, having invented and obtained a patent for an “ improved bedstead fastening,” sold to Rockafellow, the plaintiff, an assignment of the patent for the states of New York and Michigan, in consideration whereof Rockafellow conveyed by deed to said Baker in fee two lots in the borough of Cochranton, Crawford county. After making unsuccessful efforts to dispose of his patent within the territory of the two states named, Rockafellow tendered a reconveyance of it to Baker, and demanded back his lots. Baker refused to accept…
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