U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York August 22, 1877 (Halsey v. Garlick)

WHEELER, District Judge.

This cause has been submitted on bill, answer, replication, proofs, and briefs of counsel. The only point insisted on in behalf of the defendants is, that the patent is void, because the pat-entee was not the original inventor of the improvement in wagon-gearing for which he obtained the patent, and because it was in actual use at the time he claimed to have invented it.