MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.
This case comes before us on appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The facts, so far as necessary to present the point of our decision, are as follows:
In 1869, and previous to March of that year, several persons interested in a patent for the manufacture of illuminating gas, and gas machines known as "Rand's Patent," for the States of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois...
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