Stewart-Warner Corp. v. Smithey

The appellant is a Virginia corporation, with its chief office in the city of Chicago, engaged in the manufacture and sale of automobile accessories, and in relation to this case, particularly speedometers.

The appellee, a lawyer from Lawrenceville, Virginia, is the inventor of devices for speedometers, particularly one of the nature of a mileage period signaling contrivance, which consisted in marking in contrasting colors the base of certain numerals on the periphery, or circumference, of the wheels of the season odometer of a speedometer, so that when the numerals with the colored markings…