American Engineering Co. v. E. H. Bardes Range & Foundry Co.

NEVIN, District Judge.

This is a patent suit. Plaintiff, American Engineering Company, filed its bill of complaint on March 25, 1936. Subsequently, amendments to the bill were filed. Defendant filed its answer on September 29, 1936, but later, on October 6, 1936, with the consent of plaintiff, defendant filed a substituted answer.

The bill of complaint and amendments thereto, set forth a number of patents, to which plaintiff claimed ownership and all of which it claimed defendant was infringing. Prior to the trial of this cause (July 1 and 2, 1937) the parties hereto had agreed that a consent…