MR. JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the court.
The petitioners are the owners of the Grant patent (No. 554,675) issued February 18, 1896, for an improvement in rubber-tired wheels. In a suit for infringement brought by the petitioners against the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (the respondent) it was held by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that the patent was void for want of novelty. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Rubber...
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