Manzel v. Houde Engineering Corp.

KNIGHT, District Judge.

This is a patent infringement suit involving Claims 20 and 24 of Letters Patent No. 1,675,760 issued to Charles W. Manzel on July 3, 1928, covering an improvement in hydraulic shock absorbers. Title in the plaintiff is admitted. It is also admitted that the accused shock absorbers were manufactured by defendant, Houde Engineering Corporation, sold by that corporation to the Ford Motor Company, and thereafter sold by the defendant last named.

We are concerned in this suit with shock absorbers as used on automobiles. It is well known that the function of the shock *41absorber…