Legal Opinion
Great Northern Ry. Co. v. General Railway Signal Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 29, 1932No. 9247PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENYON, Circuit Judge.
Appellee, herein called the signal company, brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota against appellant, herein termed the railway company, for the infringement of a certain patent, No. 1,551,515, for improvements in an automatic train control system, which patent was applied for by one Howe, whose rights later passed to the signal company by assignment. The railway company secured its alleged rights from the Sprague Safety Control & Signal Corporation, which installed the alleged infringing system and defended the suit for the…
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