Monitor Stove Co. v. Williamson Heater Co.

PECK, District Judge.

Action for infringement of the Strong patent. No. 1,002,776, and of the Doyle & Wollenhaupt patent, No. 1,-346,801.

*911As to the Strong patent, No. 1,002,776, issued September 5, 1911, application filed March 6, 1911, validity is denied, but infringement of this patent, if valid, is admitted by defendants.

Samuel D. Strong, now 60 years of age, of Coldwater, Mich., a tinsmith by trade, had for many years been a dealer in furnaces of the old-fashioned type that convey heat by means of pipes to various rooms. He had sold them to farmers, but not to their satisfaction, because…