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 592 FEDERAL REPORTER. �tion of our interest in said patent, reissues, or new patents in said bntton- hole attachments or machines that we now have or may have, unless by tho written consent of each party now owning the same." �By an assigninent made January 31, 1877, and recorded February 9, 1877, and which recited that Eandel had assigned to Smith & Downer an undmded one-third interest to each in said patent, "and to any im- provements or new invention in button-hole attachments or button-hole sewing machines that the said Eandel might make or produce," Eandel & Smith assigned to Downer "all our right, title, and interest in and to said inventions, as secured to us by said letters patent and assignment." By an assignment made February 5, 1877, and recorded February 9, �1877, and which recited the contents of said two assignments, Powner assigned to one House "one undivided half of all my right, title, and interest in and to said inventions as secured to me by said letters patent and assignment, and to any improvements or new inventions in button-hole attachments or button-hole sewing machines that the said Eandel might make or produce." Byan assignment made Feb- ruary 19, 1877, and recorded February 22, 1877, and which recited the contents of said three assignments, Downer and House assigned to the Eandel Button-Hole Machine Company "all our right, title, and interest in and to said invention, as secured to us by the said letters patent and assignments." By an assignment made March 7, �1878, and recorded May 31, 1878, and which recited the contents of said prior assignments, and that Lysander Wright, Jr., (the plaintiff in this suit,) — �♦' Is desirous of obtaining an undivided interest in and to certain improve- ments and inventions in button-hole attachments made by said William Randel previous to the nineteenth day of September, 1876, and for which a United States patent was issued, bearing date the second day of January, 1877, aud numbered 192,008," �— The said company assigned to said Wright all its right, title, inter- est, and claim in and to said invention, as set forth in said letters patent No. 192,008, and which bear date January 2, 1877, as set forth in above-mentioned assignments. �On the second of January, 1877, Eandel filed in the patent-ofEce an application for a patent for an "improvement in button-hole attachments for sewing machines." On the twenty-eighth of March, 1877, Eandel and the defendants John W. Cipperly, John C. Cole, and Theodore E. Haslehurst executed an agreement whereby Eandel agreed to assign to the other three (one-third each) a one-half "inter- est in his invention of an attachment to a sewing machine for mak- ��� �