Elliott Core Drilling Co. v. Smith

ST. SURE, District Judge.

Appeal from a final decree dismissing the bill of complaint in a patent infringement suit.

Elliott Core Drilling Company, appellant herein, is a California corporation engaged in the business of performing core drilling service and selling core drills. H. C. Smith, doing business under the name of H. C. Smith Manufacturing Company, appellee herein, is in the same business. Each of the parties has a patent on a core drill, and each brought suit against the other charging infringement. The suits were consolidated for hearing, but at the close of the trial the Smith suit…