CAMERON SEPTIC TANK CO. v. KNOXVILLE

No. 82.

227 U.S. 39 (1913)

CAMERON SEPTIC TANK COMPANY v. CITY OF KNOXVILLE, IOWA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 20, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry Love Clarke for appellant.

Mr. Wallace R. Lane, with whom Mr. R.L. Welch and Mr. Samuel H. Crosby were on the brief, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

A bill in equity was brought by appellant as successor to the rights of an invention patented under United States letters patent to Edwin Cameron et al. for a process and an apparatus for treating sewage, No. 634,423, dated October 3, 1899. The bill contained the usual allegations and prayed for an injunction to restrain appellee from the use of the invention. Appellee filed a plea to the bill in which...

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