MR. JUSTICE WOODS delivered the opinion of the court. He recited the facts as above stated, and continued:
The refusal of the court to direct the jury to return a verdict for the defendant is, among other things, assigned for error. We think the charge requested should have been given, because, in our opinion, the first claim of the reissued patent, which is the only one that the plaintiff insisted had been infringed, is void.
The testimony showed that it...
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