RAILROAD COMPANY v. DUBOIS


79 U.S. 47 (____)

12 Wall. 47

RAILROAD COMPANY v. DUBOIS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. W. Schley and T. Donaldson, for the plaintiff in error.

Messrs. W.H. Armstrong and S. Linn, contra.


Mr. Justice STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

The court below, refusing to give the first instruction asked for by the defendants, construed the first claim in the plaintiff's patent to be, not for a process, but for a device, or instrument to be employed in a process, the instrument being a floating coffer-dam constructed as described in the specification, in which the masonry...

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