Case Name: PARKER v. BAMKER
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1855-10
Citations: 18 F. Cas. 1114
Docket Number: 
Parties: PARKER v. BAMKER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 18
Pages: 1114–1115

Head Matter:
Case Wo. 10,735.
PARKER v. BAMKER.
[6 McLean, 631.]
Circuit Court, S. D. Ohio.
Oct Term, 1855.
Patents — Pleading—Failure to Answer — Damages — Profits.
1. When no answer is made to an alleged infringement of a patent, the charge is admitted.
2. One-fourth of the proceeds being estimated as the profits of the mill, the damages were estimated at that amount.
[Reported by Hon. John McLean. Circuit Justice.]

Opinion:
This is an action for damages, by the plaintiff [Zebulon Parker, against Thomas Bamker], for the infringement of plaintiff's patent, in using his percussion water wheel for mills, etc. No plea being filed, the charge in the declaration was admitted. A witness being sworn, proved the use of the wheel three months in the year; that 3,000 feet of plank would be sawed in a day, and he estimated one-fourth of the proceeds for the expense of the mill, one-fourth to keep the mill in repair, one-fourth for the hire of a sawyer, and the other fourth for profit, which amounted, in five years, to the sum of $460, for which the jury found a verdict Judgment
[For other cases involving this patent see note to Parker v. Hatfield, Case No. 10,736.]
Hr. Stanbery, for plaintiff.
Several other cases were decided on the same, principle.