MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.
This writ was brought by Zane and Roach, as assignees of one Nathaniel Jenkins, against the defendant, Soffe, for infringing (as charged) certain letters patent granted to said Jenkins, June 22d, 1865, for an improvement in self-acting cocks or faucets.
The general features of the invention patented, so far as material to be considered, may be described as follows: The valve is situated in a chamber below...
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