Leonard v. Simplex Electric Heating Co.

(orally). I am prepared to decide this case now. The plea of the defendants is interposed to so much of the bill of complaint as alleges infringement of the Carpenter patent, granted Eebruary 24, 1891. The plea sets up an estoppel by a prior adjudication in 1895 in a suit in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut between persons with whom the parties to the present suit are in privity. The complainant has filed a replication to this plea, and upon the proofs taken upon the issue thus joined the general question is whether the facts set up in the plea are true. In…