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FOND DU LAC COUNTY v. MAY

No. 61.

137 U.S. 395 (1890)

11 S.Ct. 98

34 L.Ed. 714

FOND DU LAC COUNTY, v. MAY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 15, 1890.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles E. Shepard for plaintiff in error. Mr. J.H. McCrory was with him on the brief.

Mr. M.C. Burch for defendant in error. Mr. Duane E. Fox was with him on the brief.

MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action at law, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, on the 26th of September, 1885, by Sarah May against the county of Fond du Lac, a corporation of the State of Wisconsin, to recover damages for the infringement of letters patent No. 25,662, granted to Edwin May, October 4, 1859, for fourteen years from that day, for an "improvement in the construction...

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