Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1883 — DRIVE-WELL PATENTS. [ARTICLE]

DRIVE-WELL PATENTS.

The Grievances of Farmers the Subject of Legislation by Congress. [Washington Telegram.] The farmers of the country who have had to pay damages for infringement on the-drive-well patents, and all who have ever had a well driven, will be interested in knowing that no less than ten or twelve bills have already been introduced in Congress to cover, their grievances, if they have any, and to guard them against loss in the future from suits for damage. Representative Morey, of Ohio, is one of the many authors of these bills, and he says there is a general determination among the member* from Michigan, Indiana. Ohio and Illinois, and some other States whose farmers are interested largely, to have a bill passed at once that will stop extortions from Innocent purchasers of the diamond-points to driven wells. The bill which he has introduced provide* that if any person buys a patented article in the open market from a regular dealer, for his own use. it shall be sufficient defense, in any suit brought by the patentee, to show that it was bought in good faith, and the patentee must look to the dealer for damages for infringement.