The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-30 00:00:00

A.THERTON COAL

ABRAHAM BURROWS, Agent to John
Fletcher, Esq., and others. coal proprietors, beg respect-
fully to call the attention of Housekeepers to their present
SCALE of PRICES :

Atherton best House Coal, lls. 6d. per ton ; the beautiful
" Peacock" Coal, Ils. 6d. per ton ; Second House Coal,
103. 6d. per ton ; small best Coal, 9s. per ton. An inferior
quality of Coal at a lower price. The above are all warranted
free from Slack, and are carted free to the purchaser's resi-
NIDS. dence, within the parliamentary bounds .
To Founders, Millownera - -,te consumers, they

ann _ tam. of e
confidently recommend their En;itiSand Steam Coil, at mode-
rate prices, which will be found`, on trial, equal, if not auPe.
riot., to any other kind in tiOrmarket

[eratum muc

h sought

An excellent Shipeir

Coal, all lumps, at the lowest market

add reised to the undersigned, will meet with prompt

.areful a tttntion

ABRAHAM BURROWS.
51, Crown-street, Liverpool

IN CIIANC

CRY-INJUNCTION,

MILNER V. HARRISON

Pli cation was mad

on Thursday, the 25th

Turner, at Bath, on 1

r. William Milner,

Executor of the late Thomas Milner, the Patentee of an Inven-
tion of " Improvements in Boxes, Safes, or other Depositories
for the Protection of Papers'or other materia s from Fire," for
an injunction to restrain the defendant, John Gerrnfin Harri-
son, of Liverpool, his agents, servants, &c., from making,
utting in practice. or vending, or procuring to he
, during the remainder of the term mentioned in the

'made: &

Safes, or

other depositories made in such or the like manner
same or the like principle as the said Thomas Mil

resemblir
Mr. Wf
for the de

it the said Invention.
bster appeared for the plaintiff.. and Mr. Shebbeare
,fendant, and affidavits in support of and in opposition

use of

ibstances, distributed in an absorbent material in
tween the outer and inner casings of the Box, which
ta, when exposed to beat, evolved steam or moisture,
Ailed effect of the moisture and the material, kept
,rotecting the Safes, enclosinv papers. &e.. from fire.

the comt

to be mac
don. hut
made

ier a Patent grante

.M.ssrs. Tanr., of Lon-

which the plaintiff contended were substantially
cording to Nlilner's Invention, and were an infringe-
his Patent. An action had,been brought by the
against the defendant for thrinfringem.nt, and tried
_

went on
plaintiff

•minsel

a verdict found for
,;he plaintiff, the defendant's
/
ndering
a Bill of F ptinns to the direction of the
dire on the constr ion of Mr. Milner's specification.
ending this ver ct, the defendant Harrison 'had
to sell the Flo s and Safes complained of, and the
filed by the intiff proved the recent sale by defen-
.. .. .

learned
Notwitt

continn

fa Safe, ivlOcVcientifi
he same as tAse prove

witnesses stated was substan-
on the trial, and found to be an
led by Doctor Nfutsprat whose

;ed that it was made according to

es of this ki

he principle on which the Court inter
and observed that Tann's specifi

catton a
stop the
to the fi

ared to contemplate only a dry non-conductor to
at, whereas Milner's created a -further obstructioo
by producing at the period when the fire began to

7 material with moisture, and thereby protected the
its. His Honour adverted to the long enjoy-
: which was granted in 1840, the-result of the
the clear opinion in the ptainfiff's -favour
,ord Chief Justice, and in which his Honour
; that he considered Milner's was a Patent.
ery mode by which the liquid. &c., might he em-
noisten the absorbent material and he concluded
the injunction in the terms of the motion.

by the 1
, statin

OF BOOKS, DEEDS, &c.,
FROM FIRE.
BENCH, JTTNE 23RD, 1851, BEFORE

E RVATI ON

LORD CA

ND A SPRCI

RRISON

Tann's Safes and Boxes. and advertising
)prietor of Tann': Patent Safes, Chests, Fi•c.)

for the purpose of

kitting

Isiye right, on the part of the. Plaintiff, of applying
or materials evolvinz moisture on the application of

with ether absorbent materials, within
calculated to

.6, Safes, or DI

;area with me

Telly preserving the papers

i ignition. Mr. Crowder, Q.C., Air. M. Chatibers;
Mr. Webster, appeared for the Plaintiff; and Sir F. The-
r, Mr. Knowles, Q.C.; and Mr. Hindmarsh, for the Defen-
:. After the case had been stated by Mr. Crowder evidence
given by Mr. Grantham, of Liverpool, Civil Engineer and
eyor of Steamers to the Board of Trade; Mr. Samuel
Ids, jun., of London, formerly of Liverpool ; Mr. J. W.
her, of Liverpool ; Mr. Alderman Bennett, Ironfounder, of
rpool; Dr. Sheridan Muspratt, Professor of Chymistry,
Mr. John Smith, President of the Guardian
Mr. B. Woodcroft, Professor of Machinery

=l,
Itiver

University College. London ; and by Mr. John Owens,
thn foremen of Milner's Works for the last twenty years,
utility, originality, &c., of Milner's Safes—of which
Is of. 25,000 are now in use—and also oT the infringe-

s proved to

used the very materials in the Safes and floxe's he had
and sold. which he had seen used by the Plaintiff's firm,
1849. This

Sh

Thesiger's reply for the Defendant, wh•
s, but whose testimony. on cross-exami:
,stablished the Plaintiff's case. Mr.

ler finally addressed the Jury on the facts, and

ast. 1840, for. certain alleged improvements in boxes for
protection of 'papers' from fire. The defei dant set up
ich he would not take exactly in their
e 'said that there was no proper specifica-
dly. That Milner, the patentee, was not
at it was not a new invention, that it was

.es, wlii
Ist. H

nd if the jury-thim;

Fit it would assist them he would

,ey did not think it necessary