Supreme Court of the United States December 7, 1891, 70 (Myers v. Groom Shovel Co.)

Mr. Chief Justice Fuller

delivered the opinion of the .court.

This was a bill exhibited by Henry M. Myers against The Groom Shovel Company, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, for infringement of letters patent No.-208,258, dated September 24,1878, for “ improvement in handle sockets for shovel, spades and' sco’ops.” • .