APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
The bill in this case was filed by the assignee of D. W. C. Sanford, alleging an infringement of a patent to Sanford for an improvement in refrigerators.
The principal defence relied upon was the prior invention of Lyman. The Circuit Court sustained this defence, and dismissed the bill. From this decree the complainant appealed.
Mr. Thomas A. Jenckes and Mr. George F. Seymour for the appellant.
Mr. F. H. Betts for the appellee.
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
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