New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-04-01
THE COURTS.
Uafted States District CoHrt-JudGe Dc
reai Pre.iding-s;a nk OF Louisiana In
bankruptcy.

Cafted States District CoRrt-Judge DC
reai Pre.iding-S ank OF Louisiana In
/ bankruptcy.
! In this case a motion was made yesterday
by Campbell, Spotford Il Campbell and
/ Messrs. Cooley & Philips, counsel of the
! commissioners Of the Bank, asking that a /
orders or proceedings had in this case since
! the granting OF the appeal by Judge
] SwayDe, Associate Justice of the United
{ States Supreme Court be rescinded until
! the hearing in the Supreme Court on the
! appeal. The motion was ordered to pe set
| for hearing this morning at eleven o'clock.
| A. G. Twining vs.. Bojac and Girardey.-
ing. of Yale College, New Haven, Con-
necticut, against Bujac and Girardey, Of
| this city, Calming damages to the amount
Of two hundred thousand dollars for making
and using machines substantially according
/. to lie, ters patent granted to the plaintiff FOR
an Improvement in the man ufa cture Of ice !;
and for further damages claimed to amount
10 one hundred thousand dollars for profits
unlawfu'ly rea lied by them by vending to
others for use the process and invention
described in said letters patent.
DefendaDtS' answer sets forth that plain
| tiff was not the original and first inventor of
said process, and denies the novelty of the
; invention secured by the letters patent re-
, ferred to. The trial of this case commenced
I yesterday, and develops already very many
points OF chemical and mechanical interest.
The defendants have manufactured and sold
machines under the French patents of Carrie
and Mignon & R0uart, and have vended to
others the rights of using these patents.
The plaintiff introduced evidence to
show that deten dants have already realized
large sums from their alleged infringe nent,
and also the evidence of Professor st. John,
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
Of NJ, VfrG Mir nd hn& # praci Il ant Row
| nard, of Columbia College, New York, tend
ing to show that the last named patents
(Carre and Mignon & Rouart, of 1860 and
1865 IN this country, are obvious infringe
ments of ,the plaintiff g American patent of
1853. The plaintiffs individual testimony
concerning the orig nation ana development
OF his own plan; that of Professor st. John,
who saw its working at Cleveland, Ohio,
where the first results were produced under
it, and that of President Barnard, who
speaks of the relative working of the princi-
pies Ofplaintiff's and defendants Inventions,
after having seen the latter in full and sue
cessful operation at the late Paris EXPOSE
tion-are peculiarly interesting to all scien-
tifc persons, rs well as to residents of our
city, where The daily use of manufactured
ice has become necessity of existence.
The taking of testimony was continued
yesterday, and The further consideration of
the case postponed until such time as the
counsel for the parties may agree on. A.
B. Long, and Billings & Hughes are at.
torneys for plaintiff, and Johnson & Denis,
of this city, and George Harding, Of Phila-
delphia, for defendants.
The Moiioa to suspend Sheriff Maxwell
from OMcs-The Difficulty seIsled,
RichSrt vs.. Lewis Lane ct al In this
case. Yesterday, Judge Cooley, of the Sixth
District Court, made an order, eI proprio
against Sheriff Maxwell and Chief Deputy
Sheriff Joseph F. Dick, which had been
taken the day before in the the matter of
the suit of William Richart VS.. Lewis Lane
ct al, reported by US yesterday.
This little fare up,' which has created
considerable excitement in the precincts
Of the courts, is now, happily, at An ED.