CAWOOD PATENT


94 U.S. 695 (1876)

CAWOOD PATENT. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. TURRILL. MICHIGAN SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN INDIANA RAILROAD COMPANY v. SAME. CHICAGO AND ALTON RAILROAD COMPANY v. SAME. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON, AND QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY v. SAME. PITTSBURGH, FORT WAYNE, AND CHICAGO RAILWAY COMPANY v. SAME.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Mr. George Gifford, Mr. John B. Niles, and Mr. George Payson, and submitted on printed argument by Mr. R. Biddle Roberts, for the appellants.

Mr. E.W. Stoughton, contra.


MR. JUSTICE STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

These five cases may very conveniently be considered together, since they all present, in the main, the same questions.

The Cawood patent, for alleged infringements of which the suits were brought, has heretofore been the subject of consideration in this court, where it has been at least partially construed, and its limits have been defined. 1 Wall. 491. It is a patent "for an alleged new and useful improvement...

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