Coulter v. Eagle & Phenix Mills

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill to enjoin the infringement of a patent. The deeree was entered at the conclusion of a hearing upon bill and answer of a motion for preliminary injunction, but that hearing was conducted in open court before the District Judge, who heard the oral testimony and had before him the prior patents relied on by appellee in its answer to disclose the state of the prior art, and who reached the conclusion that the infringement alleged had not been, and in the nature of the case, could not be sustained.

The patent in suit is the…