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212° MILNER'S PATENT FIRE-RESISTING

SAFES.
MILNER v. HARRISON

SECOND TRIAL AT LAW FOR PIRACY OF MILNER'S PATFNT.
rpHE Defendant, Joiw GERMAN HARRISON, having
j_ persevered in the sale of Safes constructed on the princi-
ple of Milner 's Patent, in defiance of the verdict found against
him in June, 1851, in the Court of Queen's Bench, and an In.
junction afterwards awarded against him by the Court of
Chancery (he pretending that the Safes sold by .him since the
first trial were not infringements, but made under a patent
granted to Messrs. Sann), 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 Milner's
Patent. - - -

This action was tried on the 25th Jurie last, before Lord
Campbell and a special jury. The follosiing extracts from the
learned Judge's address to the jut y/in summing up will show
distinctly the questions sulmtitteyo the jury
.:7

Lord Oampliell.—" I own it sins to me that Mr. Harrison
does not appear before you ,tery advantageous colours from
these proceedings. He li been in the service of Messrs.
Milner, and while in the' service be takes another shop, and
there he begins and sel fire-proof boxes which were agreed by
a jury sitting where ou now are to be substantially the same
as those of Milner the Patentee, and that record has been
given in evidence: 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 I do not discover
that there is any real difference between this case and that ;
you will attend to all the evidence, and form your own conclu-
sion from the evidence that has been given.
" 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 lie
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
wafer in them had not been boiled and set to cool before being
used. The three Safes upon which this second action was
brought were sworn to by Messrs. 7 ann as being made accord-

ing tO their Patent.
The Public of Liverpool will remember the species of adver
tisements by which this wretched case has been upheld. THE'

hove been ;is 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.

us before,) is only that of all the buyers of these things. Mr.
C. was induced to give .€l5 for a safe, 22 x 16 x 16, on the
assurance that it was "'Thief-proof—three quarter inch thick
solid wrought iron," &c., &c. Looking at it a day or two
afterwards, at home, and on scraping the paint off it, he found
it a MERE sitELL—a perfect delusion ; an:: those who have
intrusted their valuable property to such safeguards will do
well to take the same course.
For our own Safes, we have devoted our lives and our earn-
ings to the production of the best securities in the world against
Fire, Robbery, or Violence, which 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
paid to the manufacture in all its details, they will be less likely
to hp imnosed upon by external appearances and fallacious

:naproerst aa, it t !natterb e t ofhe the
finest
w.e selectionrk.
MANUFACTORY IN THE WORLD,
the Safe makers in Great Bri.of a Safe. " NIILXER'S PIICENIXcebr.tkaFinEIyIVTOIR:::)(SITateEWxTiEndNi
employing
eoim:Pyr;:el
sooBAyei:lnniN:
nttdr Foundry,)
eea:i
Europe,
oft Eat t :Tie
t(Ereih-s eayFetE,ti a class,l
tain, and the Proprietors respectfully invite the people of
Liverpool to inspect an establishment that has originated under
our present patent, and grown up amongst them. The effect
of these trials will be to confirm to Messrs. Milner and Son the
exclusive use of materials or vessels in which, to use the
Judge's words, " the water remains permanently held until the
occurrence of the calamity (Fire) brings the cure." The trials
by the biverpool Polytechnic Society of Chubb's and Mart's
Boxes filled with anhydrous (dry) materials, and of Milner's,
filled according to their evaporating principle, proving the
manifest superiority of the latter, wilt be remembered, and

Itive Fite taming principle, b, ~. „‘, ,
ropow, contrasted with all others -willioUt, ttiat—agency.
des..tc:),ooo.deg.

Milner's
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