BROTHERS v. UNITED STATES

No. 309.

250 U.S. 88 (1919)

BROTHERS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 19, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William F. Brothers pro se.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Frierson, for the United States, submitted.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellant brought this action in the Court of Claims under the Act of June 25, 1910, c. 423, 36 Stat. 851, to recover compensation for the unlicensed use by the United States in the Panama Canal work of his patented invention for "Improvements in cable cranes with gravity anchors." That court made findings of fact upon which it concluded as matter of law that there was no infringement of claimant's patent, and...

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