Lanova Corporation v. National Supply Co.

GIBSON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs have objected to some seven interrogatories filed by defendant. As worded when filed, the first six of them call upon the plaintiffs to express their contentions in respect to the engine of the defendant which is alleged to infringe the two patents in suit. Counsel for defendant admitting (as we understood him) the lack of precision in the words used, verbally proposed to interpret the interrogatories so that in Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5 the word “does” is substituted for “will plaintiff contend”, and in No. 2 the words “will plaintiff contend” are stricken out.

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