General Motors Co. v. Swan Carburetor Co.

The Swan Company, plaintiff below, was the licensor and the General Motors Company the licensee, in a patent license contract relating to- an automobile intake manifold. To recover royalties thereunder, the Swan Company brought this suit in the state court;, it was removed to the court below, and plainly belonged, as it was considered to be, upon the law side of the court. A jury was waived, in writing; a trial was had, and testimony taken before the court; without any request for findings filed by either party, but in purported compliance with a request by defendant (probably oral), the…