Delong v. Barnes
Delong v. Barnes
Opinion of the Court
At the trial in the court of common pleas, the defendant offered testimony tending to show that, on May 21, 1874, James M. Barnes, the defendant in error, and his wife Arminda H. Barnes, in consideration of an assignment to them by A. E. Canfield of an alleged interest
“ If the jury find from the evidence that the consideration of the note was the sale of an interest in a patent right, and that there was first given in payment for said interest a note for $750, having thereon written, as required by the statute the words “given for a patent right,” and the same was discounted by the payee for notes amounting to $600, of which the note in suit was one written in the usual form of commercial paper, and negotiable, but without the words “ given for a patent right ” thereon written, such note in suit is not a patent right note within the meaning of the statute.” Which request the court refused to give in charge to the jury, to which refusal the plaintiff excepted.
Held: 1. The court did not err in refusing to charge the jury as thus requested.
2. The note sued on was, within the meaning of section 3178 of the Revised Statutes, “ A promissory note or other negotiable instrument, the consideration of which consists, in whole or in part, of the right to make, use, or vend a patent invention, or an invention claimed to be patented.”
3. A charge to the jury that the plaintiff “ must have had notice or information of such facts as amounted to him, under
Judgment affirmed.
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