Consumers Twine & Machinery Co. v. Mount Pleasant Thermo Tank Co.

I. The Consumers Twine & Machinery Company, appellant, and the Mt. Pleasant Thermo Tank Company, appellee, are Iowa corporations. The former, located at Sioux City, was, at all times material to the present controversy, engaged in the business of manufacturing binders’ twine and ropes and selling farm supplies. The latter was organized in 1919, for the purpose of purchasing and acquiring by assignment letters patent, particularly of the watering tanks and troughs hereafter described. The patents in question, which were originally issued to Hilmer N. Bnholm, were acquired in 1919, by…