Horman Patent Manuf'g Co. v. Brooklyn City R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
[This was a bill in equity by the Horman Patent Manufacturing Company against the Brooklyn City Railroad Company to recover damages for the alleged unlawful use of reissued letters patent Nos. 8013, and 8014, granted to W. H. Horman December 25, 1877, and July 25, 1877, respectively. The original letters patent Nos. 165,832 and 171,-133 were granted July 20, 1875, and December 14, 1875, respectively.]
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
This is an action for an injunction and to recover damages for the use by the defendant of certain machines employed for the purpose of registering fares in railroad cars. The bill, after describing two separate patents owned by the plaintiff, being reissues Nos. 8,013, and 8,014, charges that the defendants are using some registering machines, some of them containing, in one and the same register or apparatus, the inventions, or substantial and material parts of the inventions, described and secured in and by, each of the said reissued letters patent Nos. 8,013 and…
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