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 906 PBDBBAIj B^POBTER. �i A creditor's claim, duly proved according to the provisions of the bankrupt act, is, prima fade, good. The burden of showing that the claim is founded in mistake or fraud, lies upon the assignee or the crediter attacking the proof. T think he has failed in this respect, in the present instance, except in the amount of the Chase & Locke note, as before stated. �Under the circumstances, the proper order to be entered is that the register's decision be reversed; that the proof of claim be expunged ; and that the crediter have leave to put in new proof, after deducting the amount of the Chase & Locke note, and that no costs be allowed to either party ���Washeurn & MoEN Manuf'g Co. V. Haish. Washbuen & MoEN Mandi-'g Co. and another r. Same. �[Girmit Court, N. D. minois. Febmary 21, 1881. ) �L Rb-Issues Nos., 6,902, 6,913, akd 6,976— Babbed-Wieb Fenobs— Va- LiDiTY — Motion fob Rehbarinq. �Upon a motioa for a rehearlng, on the groiuid that the re-issued letters patent Nos. 6,902, 6,913, and 6,976, for improvements in barbed-wire fences, In suit, are invalid, net being for the same in- ventions as their respective originals, such re-iasnes hdd valid, and motion overruled. �2. Patent No. 67,117— Re-Issub No. 6,976 — Construction— Ldiita- �TION. �Original letters patent No. 67,117, granted July 23, 1867, to William D. Hunt, claiming the method of " providing the wires of a wire fence with a series of gpur wheels," the claim in the re-issue thereof, No. 6,976, dated March 7, 1876, to Charles Kennedy, assignee, for "a fence-wire provided with apuri," cannot hetnlarged to include every kind of barb that may be attached to fence wire, but is limited to the fence wire and spura described in the original patent. �3. Bame— Spur-Wheei. Babbs— Hunt's Devicb. �Hunt's invention consists of spur-wheels having sharpened spurs with holes in their centere to permit the fence wire to pais through them, and fltting the wire loosely to revolve upon it, or kept in their places at suitable distances apart by flanges. ��� �