JOHNSON v. RAILROAD CO.


105 U.S. 539 (____)

JOHNSON v. RAILROAD COMPANY

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Benjamin F. Butler and Mr. Thomas Bracken for the appellants.

Mr. Andrew McCallum and Mr. S.D. Law for the appellee.


MR. JUSTICE WOODS, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellee insists that the invention covered by the second claim of the reissued patent, of which infringement is charged, is neither described in the specification nor claimed in the claim of the original patent, and that the reissue is therefore broader than the original patent, and consequently void.

It takes but slight comparison of the patents to show that this contention...

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