BROOKS ET AL. v. FISKE ET AL.


56 U.S. 212 (1853)

15 How. 212

ARTEMAS L. BROOKS, IGNATIUS TYLER, WILLIAM W. WOODWORTH, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF WILLIAM WOODWORTH, DECEASED, AND ALSO AS GRANTEE, AND JAMES G. WILSON, APPELLANTS, v. JOHN FISKE AND NICHOLAS G. NORCROSS, DOING BUSINESS UNDER THE FIRM OF FISKE & NORCROSS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Keller and Mr. G.T. Curtis, for the appellants, and Mr. Whiting for the appellees.


Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

The bill before us was filed against Fiske and Norcross by the assignees of Woodworth's patented machine for planing boards, and of tonguing and grooving them.

It is alleged that a planing machine, patented to Norcross, and used by the defendants, was substantially in its combination, and in the result it produced, the same as that assigned to the complainants, for a district in which the defendant's machine...

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