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 objections that have been insisted upon and presented by this plea.

Upon all the facts, as they are disclosed, the whole structure of the plea, in the light of the authorities, must fail; and the demurrer will be sustained, and the party must plead to the merits.

v.

(Circuit Court, D. Connecticut.June 29, 1880.)


 * Powder Co. v. Powder Works, 98 U. S. 126, followed.


 * A re-issue is valid where the specification describes the invention as consisting of two separate and independent features, although it was described in the original specification as consisting of those two features in combination.


 * A claim in a re-issue for a post-office box with a metallic door and frames is void, where the original invention was described as a series of metallic doors and door-frames, with a series of wooden pigeon-holes, forming a continuons metallic front.


 * O’Reilly v. Morse, 15 How. 62.


 * Schillinger v. Gunther, 16 O. G. 905.

Frederic H. Bells and Causten Browne, for plaintiff.

Charles R. Ingersoll, for defendant.

, D. J.This is a bill in equity, based upon the alleged infringement of re-issued letters patent, No. 8,783, dated July 1, 1879, which was issued to the plaintiff as assignee of Silas N. Brooks, administrator of Linus Yale, Jr., for an improvement in post-office boxes. The original