MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a bill exhibited by Henry M. Myers against The Groom Shovel Company, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, for infringement of letters patent No. 208,258, dated September 24, 1878, for "improvement in handle sockets for shovel, spades and scoops."
The answer denied that Myers was the first inventor, and set up want of novelty; public use and...
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