Hildreth v. Duff

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal of Herbert L,. Plildreth from a decree of the Circuit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In that court Hildreth filed a bill in equity against Duff and Kitzmiller to enforce, by assignment of a certain patent, specific performance of a contract entered into between complainant and one Charles Thibodeau, from whom respondents subsequently bought said patent. The respondents, Duff and Kitzmiller, then filed a cross-bill to quiet title to the patent. On final hearing the court entered a decree dismissing the original bill and granting the…