Western States Mach. Co. v. S. S. Hepworth Co.

MOSCOWITZ, District Judge.

This is a motion made by the General Electric Company for leave to intervene as a defendant in this action in so far as the *146same is based on United States Letters Patent No. 1,719,132, No. 1,758,901 and No. 1,861,978, in order to assert the defenses set forth in its proposed answer on the ground that it is the manufacturer and vendor to the defendant, as well as to others, of the timing devices the use of which in connection with defendant’s sugar centrifugal machines is charged by plaintiff in its complaint to be an infringement of said patents, and as such…