Woodmanse & Hewitt Manuf'g Co. v. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan. Tills was a hill by the Woodmanse & Hewitt Manufacturing Company against Bradley S. Williams, Malcolm B. Williams, Homer Manvel, and the Williams Manufacturing Company for alleged infringement of certain patents for improvements in windmills. The circuit court dismissed the hill on the ground of laches, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BURTON, Circuit Judge.
This is a bill in equity. It was filed August 1, 1890. Complainant is. by assignment tlie owner of two patents for certain improvements in windmills, which it alleges have been, and are being continuously, infringed by the defendants. The prayer of the bill 'is for an injunction, and for an accounting as to damages and profits. No preliminary injunction, was asked or allowed, and upon final hearing the bill was dismissed upon grounds stated in an opinion by District Judges Wage and Severens.1 The original bill was filed alone against the individual defendants Bradley S.…
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