Tweedie v. Royal Co.

FARIS, District Judge.

This is an action by plaintiff, Tweedie, against defendant, for an injunction to restrain infringement of plaintiff’s patent for a boot top, numbered 1,153,977, and dated September 21, 1915, and also to restrain defendant from using plaintiff’s name in and about the sale of boot tops which infringe plaintiff’s patent; that is to say, lor unfair competition.

The art is old. Boot tops of the sort called over gaiters, or “spats,” in the trade, are old. But plaintiff contends that in the boot tops made; under his patent he has by an improvement brought about an entirely new…