New Jersey Shoe Tree & Last Co. v. Baker Shoe Tree Mfg. Co.

NOYES, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit in equity to restrain the alleged infringement of two patents for shoe trees granted to Lionel H. Leadam and numbered, respectively, 621,423 and 621,424. The particular claims alleged to be infringed by the defendant are claim 1 of patent No. 631,423 and claims 1 and 2 of patent No. 621,424. The defenses are:(1) Invalidity.(2) Noninfringement.

Claim 1 of the first patent reads as follows:

“The herein-described tree for boots and shoes comprising the toe or forward member, a heel or rear member bifurcated at its forward end and having a pin extending across…