Case Name: OVERMAN v. WARWICK CYCLE MANUF'G CO.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1894-04-17
Citations: 61 F. 986
Docket Number: No. 71
Parties: OVERMAN v. WARWICK CYCLE MANUF’G CO.
Judges: Before COLT and PUTNAM, Circuit Judges, and NELSON, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 61
Pages: 986–986

Head Matter:
OVERMAN v. WARWICK CYCLE MANUF’G CO.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
April 17, 1894.)
No. 71.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District, of Massachusetts.
This was a suit by Albert H. Overman against the Warwick Cycle Manufacturing Company to restrain the infringement of letters patent No. 331,001, granted to the complainant for a saddle for velocipedes.
The bill was dismissed with costs (54 Fed. 496), and. complainant now appeals.
Chamberlin, White & Mills and Edward S. White, for appellant.
John L. S. Eoberts, for appellee.
Before COLT and PUTNAM, Circuit Judges, and NELSON, District Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The characteristic feature of the Overman patented saddle is its adaptability for removal and replacement at pleasure. This is the essence of the invention, and constitutes the improvement over prior saddles. The defendant's saddle embodies a form of construction in which this feature is absent. This is the ground upon which the court below held that the defendant's saddle did not infringe the Overman patent. We think the court below was right, and we can add nothing to the reason so clearly stated in its opinion. Decree affirmed.