SEYMOUR ET AL. v. McCORMICK

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60 U.S. 96 (1857)

19 How. 96

15 L.Ed. 557

WILLIAM H. SEYMOUR AND LAYTON S. MORGAN, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. CYRUS H. McCORMICK.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 7, 1857.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Upon these exceptions, the case came up to this court, and was argued by Mr. Harding and Mr. Stanton for the plaintiffs in error, and by Mr. Dickerson and Mr. Johnson for the defendant. There was also a brief filed by Mr. Selden for the plaintiffs in error.


Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of New York.

The suit was brought by McCormick against Seymour and Morgan, for the infringement of a patent for improvements in a reaping machine granted to the plaintiff on the 31st June, 1845. The improvements claimed to be infringed were — 1st, a contrivance or...

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