LIVINGSTON ET AL. v. WOODWORTH ET AL.


56 U.S. 546 (1853)

15 How. 546

WILLIAM LIVINGSTON AND EBENEZER N. CALEF, APPELLANTS, v. WILLIAM W. WOODWORTH, ADMINISTRATOR OF WILLIAM WOODWORTH, DECEASED, JAMES G. WILSON, ARTEMAS L. BROOKS, AND IGNATIUS TYLER, APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Schley, for the appellants, and by George. T. Curtis, for the appellees.


Mr. Justice DANIEL delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellees, on the 24th of July, 1848, obtained from the court above mentioned an injunction to restrain the appellants from using or vending one or more planing machines substantially the same in construction and mode of operation as the machine which had been patented to William Woodworth, deceased.

In their bill they allege the originality of the invention...

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