General Electric Co. v. Garrett Coal Co.

GRAY, Circuit Judge.

This cause conies before the court on an appeal from a final decree of the Circuit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, dismissing the bill of complaint therein.

The bill of complaint in the court below alleged that the complainant-appellant was a corporation existing under the laws of the state of New York, and, claiming as assignee the rights secured by letters patent No. 587,441 and No. 587,448, issued to William B. Potter and W. H. Knight, the first for an apparatus and the second for a method for the control of electric motors, charged that the…