U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1915

Foundation Co. v. O'Rourke Engineering Const. Co.

Foundation Co. v. O'Rourke Engineering Const. Co.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · Decided November 9, 1915 · Coxe, Lacombe, Rogers
228 F. 515; 143 C.C.A. 97; 1915 U.S. App. LEXIS 2047

Counsel

D. Anthony Usina, of New York City, for appellant., William A. Redding and William B. Greeley, both of New York City, for appellee.

Foundation Co. v. O'Rourke Engineering Const. Co.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

[1,2] Judge Hunt has made a clear statement of the improvements covered by the claims in issue and a careful analysis of the various defenses and alleged anticipations urged by the appellant. We agree with him except as to claim 6 of No. 759,389. This claim as originally inserted was as follows: “A caisson having a cutting edge of masonry.” After the trial, but prior to the final submission of the case, the plaintiff filed a disclaimer which limited this claim to concrete, so that it read: “A caisson having a cutting edge of concrete.” It is not contended that the alleged infringing structure has a cutting edge of concrete. All that counsel for the plaintiff asserts in this particular is that “the cutting edge of the Walker-Lispenard caissons is backed solidly by concrete and its face half concrete and half iron.” In other words, the contention is that a cutting edge half iron and half concrete is a cutting edge of concrete. We are unable to agree with this contention, as the claim is expressly limited to a cutting edge of concrete.

The decree is affirmed, with costs, but with half co§,ts only as to patent No. 759,389.

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