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 WARING V. JOHNSON. 501 �Charles F. Blake, for plaintiff. �William H. King, for defendant. �Blatchfobd, C. J. This suit is brought on re-issued lettera patent No. 8,199, granted to the plaintiff April 23, 1878, for an "improvement in pocket check-books;" the original patent No. 183,347 having been granted to James E. Osgood, as assignee, on the invention of said plaintiff, October 17, 1876. The specification of the re-issue, readiug what is outside of brackets and what is inside of brackets, leaving out what is in italicSj.says: "Figure 1 represents a face view; Figure 2, perspective, showing manner of folding ; Figure 3, face view of another mode of making my invention; Figure 4, per- spective of same. Like letters indicate like parts in ail the [drawings] figures. The object of my invention is to pro- vide a pocket check-book which shall at once be convenient to carry in the pocket, and which shall at the same time be provided with suitable stubs having suffioient surface to en- able the user to keep the record of his checks drawn, and of his (Jeposits. Prior to my invention pocket cheok-books were made having the stub at the rear end of the check, from which the check was tom when used. Such check-boOks were f ound, in practice, to be too long to be carried in the pocket. Other check-books had the stubs extending ail ftlong the tops of the checks; but such booka were too broad, and the stubs were of an inconvenient and unusual form. My invention avoids ail of these difficulties, and consists in so constructing the check-book that it shall be not materially longer or broader than the check itself, while at the same time it provides stubs of the size and form used in ordinary office check-books. In my check-book, the stubs, AA, are of about the usual size, and are provided at their rear end with a lip or binding piece, hh, to bind them firmly into the back of the book. The checks, ce, are attaohed to them, not at their front, but at the top and bottom, at the line, dd, so that the stubs extend from the bound back nearly the whole length of the check, and between them. The two stubs are formed of one piece of paper, the second one following the first in the length of the book. They are of about the size of those in any ��� �