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WESTINGHOUSE v. BOYDEN POWER BRAKE CO.

Nos. 116, 99.

170 U.S. 537 (1898)

18 S.Ct. 707

42 L.Ed. 1136

WESTINGHOUSE, v. BOYDEN POWER BRAKE COMPANY. BOYDEN POWER BRAKE COMPANY, v. WESTINGHOUSE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 9, 1898.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George H. Christy and Mr. Frederic H. Betts for Westinghouse. Mr. J. Snowden Bell and Mr. Bernard Carter were on their brief.

Mr. Philip Mauro and Mr. Lysander Hill for the Boyden Power Brake Company. Mr. Hector T. Fenton, Mr. Melville Church and Mr. Anthony Pollok were on their brief.

MR. JUSTICE BROWN, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The history of arresting the speed of railway trains by the application of compressed air is one to which the records of the Patent Office bear frequent witness, of a gradual progress from rude and imperfect beginnings, step by step, to a final consummation, which, in respect to this invention, had not been reached when the patent in suit was taken out, and which, it is quite possible,...

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