MR. JUSTICE WOODS delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill charged infringement of letters patent, dated October 2, 1866, granted to Edward Mellon, one of the complainants, for an improvement in the mode of attaching tires to wheels of locomotives. Mellon had assigned a one-half interest in his letters patent to William Matthews and they two were joined as complainants.
The defendant pleaded that while Mellon was the sole owner of the patent, to wit: on...
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