Railway Register Manuf'g Co. v. North Hudson C. R. Co.

When the above case came up for final hearing, the counsel for the defendants raised two preliminary questions, which were supposed to be decisive, and which, if ruled in favor of the defendants, would relieve the court from the duty of considering the controversy upon its merits. The two questions were (1) whether the complainant’s patent was not invalid because no written specifications and claim wore, in fact, signed by the inventor, nor was his signature attested by two witnesses, as required by the statute, before the letters patent could bo issued; (2) whether the letters patent were…