The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

under a

first trial were not infiin

gements, but mac

granted to Messrs. Gann), a second action was brought on the
suggestion of Vice-Chancellor Sir George Turner, to try
whether such safes were or were not infringements on Alilner's
Patent.

Campbell and a special jury. The following extracts from the
learned Judge's address to the jury iq.zumming up will show
distinctly the questions submitted the jury :
T nrri CrirrinhAll --" I Awn it can,. the,

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does not appear before you i ery advantageous colours from
these proceedings. He h been in the service of Messrs-
Milner, and while in th " service he takes another shop, and
there he begins and s s fire-proof boxes which were agreed by
a jury sitting whe you now are to be substantially the same
as those of Mil r, the Patentee, and that record has been
given in evidp ce: you are not bound by it, but you may at-
tend to it; and I must own that I do not see any reason to
believe that the jury who sat on the trial of that cause were in
any respect mistaken in point of fact, and
.11 do not discover
that there is Aviv r aol

__lig case and that ;
o all the evidence, and form your own conclu-
sion from the evidence that has been eiven.
" You are first called upon to say whether this invention of
Messrs. Milner is new. As to wheter it is useful, it seems to
me to be allowed on all hands, it seems a most marvellous pre-
servative against fire; for the water remains permanently
held in artificial vessels or in natural vessels, and the very
calamity brings the cure, for the heat causes the water to ex-
pand, and then it is turned into steam, and the steam moistens
the substance which is to be preserved, and so it is an effectual
guard against fire.

- " If you think this was new, then the only remaining ques-
tion is with regard to the infringement.

" Now the infringement seems to rest upon substantially the
same evidence as the infringement on the former trial, when
the action was brought against Mr. Harrison.

" Now you find.with respect to Tann's Patent, whatever
Tann's invention might have been, that this patent which he
manufactures, and which the defendant Harrison sells, and of
which he calls himself the sole proprietor,' operates in the
same way. It seems to me to act precisely the same way as in
Milher's patent, but upon that you will form your own judg-
ment. Then if it really has the same effect. and operates in
the same manner, and upon the same principle, it will be for
you to say whether you .have any doubt it is an infraction of
Milner's Patent. Those are the two questions for you to con-
sider."

The Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff, on both the
issues, thus establishing that the so-called Tann's Patent Safes
are a mere piracy of Milner's invention. After the trial last
year, it was pretended that the Safes then condemned were not
made according to Tann's Patent—in other words that the
waler in them had not been boiled and set to cool before being
used. The three Safes upon which this second action was
fora
delusionr a safe:
and
dx
those 16 x
,Iw6 ,hlO3 on
a thev
e
The Public of Liverpool will remember the species of adver-
tisements goutgohtthewierr
Pe
ast,ceonr;
.: to by Messrs. 1 ann as being made accord-
ing
by which this wretched case has been upheld. THEY
Thief-proof—three quarter inch thick
have been as much imposed upon, with regard to the quality
and price of the safes sold by these parties, as the advertisers
have been wronged by their illegal use of Milner's (the only
effective) Fire-resisting principle. The experience of Mr.
Cafferata, as shown at this trial, (by a gentleman unknown to
us before,) is-only that oferarelllcstthe buyers of these things. Mr.
dEiit:i_vagasir;pe‘
solid wrought iron," &C., &c. Looking at it a day or two
afterwards, at home, and on scraping the paint off it, he found
itCa s. saur wasmanEcßi assurance that
intrusted their valuable property to such will
safeguards do
well to take the same course.

s, we I

For our own Sa.,
ings to the production-emuour earn-
Fire,c in the world against
Robbery, or Violenct, hich the public has given to us
the best means of making, and which we mean to sell at the
lowest remunerating prices. Before buying a Safe, if parties
will look into our works, and see the labour and attention
to paidbet o
imposedthe
uponmanufacture
b y in allexternal its details, they
appearances
representations in the very important atter of the selectio.
of a Safe- wiallnbde less
slaZeillys
matter

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