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LEGGETT v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY

No. 225.

149 U.S. 287 (1893)

13 S.Ct. 902

37 L.Ed. 737

LEGGETT, v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 10, 1893.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edmund Wetmore, (with whom was Mr. Samuel C. Reed on the brief,) for appellant.

Mr. Charles C. Beaman, (with whom was Mr. Joseph H. Choate on the brief,) for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit in equity brought April 8, 1887, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York by Edward W. Leggett, a citizen of New York, against the Standard Oil Company, an Ohio corporation, for the alleged infringement of reissued letters patent No. 5785, granted to the complainant March 10, 1874, for an "improvement in lining oil barrels with glue."

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