Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co. v. Lindsay, Sterritt & Co.

Acheson, D. J.

This is a motion for an injunction on re-issued letters patent No. 8,866, dated August 19, 1879, granted to the complainant, assignee of Amos Shepard, for an improvement in coffee and spice mills.

The defendants are hardware merchants at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and sell coffee mills manufactured by Landers, Frary & Clark, which mills, it is alleged, infringe the first claim of said patent.

It clearly appears, both from the affidavits in the case and by an inspection of the Landers, Frary & Clark mill, that it embodies the first claim of the said re-issued patent. This claim is…