LITIGATION IN FIRE HOSE.
MISCELLANY
In 1880, the New York Belting and Packing Company, who, with R. F. M. Chase and others of New York city, own and control the patents for improvement in the manufacture of fire hose and belting, began a suit against Edwin E. Sibley, of the American Fire Hose Company of Chelsea and Boston, Mass., for an injunction and an account of damages and profits, by reason of Sibley’s alleged infringements of the Merrill patent. The case has been pending for about three years in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts, during which time a large mass of testimony was taken.
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