Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Elmira & Horseheads Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
Final Hearing in Equity. This action is brought by the Thomson-HoustoD Electric Company against the Elmira & Horselieads Railway Company, a corporation operating an electric railway in the city of Elmira, N. Y., for the infringement of letters patent, No. 424,695, granted April 1, 1890, to Charles J. Yan Depoele for improvements in suspended switches and traveling contacts for electric railways.
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Final Hearing in Equity. This action is brought by the Thomson-HoustoD Electric Company against the Elmira & Horselieads Railway Company, a corporation operating an electric railway in the city of Elmira, N. Y., for the infringement of letters patent, No. 424,695, granted April 1, 1890, to Charles J. Yan Depoele for improvements in suspended switches and traveling contacts for electric railways. The original application was filed March 12, 1887. It was divided and the application for the patent in suit was filed October 22, 1888. The invention relates to mechanisms and combinations thereof by…
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
The patent in controversy deals with a comparatively new art. Electricity lias so completely supplanted horse power as a means for propelling street cars that it is difficult to realize that only about 10 years have passed since the first successful electric railroad was installed. At the present time there are more than 500 roads in operation, employing an immense army of workmen and a vast amount of capital. That this wonderful result was accomplished only after innumerable difficulties and obstacles had been encountered and overcome is manifest The potentialities of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- McClain v. OrtmayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Miller v. Eagle Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Keystone Bridge Co. v. Phoenix Iron Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1877
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- Ryan v. Newark Spring Mattress Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey · 1899
- Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Black River Traction Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1903
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