Johnson Manufacturing Co. v. Edwards

CHAPMAN, Justice.

This appeal primarily concerns the construction of a written contract entered into between Ross Edwards and Jack Brogden, a partnership known as R & J, and Johnson Manufacturing Co., Inc. and Robert C. Johnson, Jr. The former will be hereinafter referred to as R & J, appellees or plaintiffs. The latter will be referred to either as Johnson, defendants or appellants.

R & J are manufacturers of a go-devil type row crop farm implement with rotary hoes called a “Crustbuster” on which they have a United States Patent, being Patent No. 2,569,464. Appellants also manufacture a…