Locke v. Munson

The plaintiff in this case, by his bill, seeks the aid of the Court to compel the specific performance of a contract.

On the 6th day of February, 1866, the defendant being the owner of certain-letters patent, of date the 5th day of August, 1856, for an improvement in lightning rods, known as “ Munson’s Tubular Lightning Rod with Spiral Flanges,” made an agreement in writing, with the plaintiff,’by which he agreed to convey and assign to the plaintiff, all right and title in and to said letters patent, “together with the ownership of the same for any extension of said patent,” in certain States…