Rubber Tire Wheel Co. v. Milwaukee Rubber Works Co.

SANBORN, District Judge.

Action at law to recover royalties under the Grant patent, No. 554,675, dated February 18, 1896, for rubber-tired wheels. The royalties claimed amount to $4,109.42; but, deducting certain offsets, the plaintiff, if entitled to recover, should have judgment for $2,517.66 principal, with 6 per cent, interest from the time the several amounts of royalties going to make up this sum became due, with due regard to the time of the payment of the sums making up the offsets. The defenses are that the license contract securing the royalties is denounced as illegal by the Sherman…