Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit February 25, 1904, No. 127 (McCarthy v. Westfield Plate Co.)

WALLACE, Circuit Judge.

We agree with the conclusions of the court below that the defendant’s coffin handles, made conformably with letters patent No. 559,898 (granted to Klein, assignor, May 12, 1896), do not infringe the complainant’s patent; ' and this being so, it will not serve any useful purpose to consider whether the claim in controversy is void for want of patentable novelty, or void