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Worswick Manuf'g Co. v. City of Kansas
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri
Decided March 4, 1889PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Equity. Bill by the Worswick Manufacturing Company and Isaac Kidd against the City of Kansas and George 0. Hale, to restrain the infringement, of a patent. ‘ 1 ' J ' ■' ’■ '
1Opinion of the CourtPhilips, J.
This is a bill in equity, complaining of an alleged infringement by respondents of patent No. 171,190, granted to Edward 0. Sullivan-, December 14, 1875, and assigned to complainants. The issue in this case is limited to the third claim of said patent, which is as follows:
“The combination, with the harness for a fire-engine or like apparatus, of a device for suspending said harness above the,place occupied by the horse when attached to the apparatus, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.”
This double harness, in combination, consists of the collar, with hames permanently attached,…
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