Miller v. Jones
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Onondaga, county. Action by Riley V. Miller and Elisha M. Moore against Thomas D. Jones, Mary E. Jones, and the Jones Positive Nut Lock Company, impleaded, etc., to set aside certain transfers of a patent. From a judgment granting the relief and denying a motion to vacate and set aside the judgment, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from special term, Onondaga, county. Action by Riley V. Miller and Elisha M. Moore against Thomas D. Jones, Mary E. Jones, and the Jones Positive Nut Lock Company, impleaded, etc., to set aside certain transfers of a patent. From a judgment granting the relief and denying a motion to vacate and set aside the judgment, defendants appeal. On the 31st May, 1889, the defendant Thomas D. Jones, being the inventor and owner of a certain valuable device known as the “Jones Safety Nut Lock, ” and having previously in due form applied to the commissioner of patents for the issuing to him of…
1Opinion of the CourtMerwin, J.
The trial court in substance found that the plaintiffs had performed their part of the contract; that under it they were entitled to have the title of the patent remain in Thomas D. Jones; and that the transfers to Mrs. Jones and .to the corporation were without the consent of plaintiffs, and were in violation of their rights. Mrs. Jones, appealing from the judgment, takes issue upon all these propositions. They are the main ones upon the merits. The trial court was, I think, correct in its construction of the contract. Its plain object was to place in the two parties to the contract the…
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