4-One Box Machine Makers v. Wirebounds Patents Co.

This is an appeal by the defendant from an equity decree. The cause was heard on bill, answer, replication, and proof. The bill of complaint, which was filed in the Supreme Judicial Court in Cumberland County, by one Maine corporation against another, prays the cancellation of a notice of election to terminate a license relating to patents; the enjoining of collection of royalties except at a specified rate; the reduction of royalty rates, because of partial eviction; and other and further relief.

The answer denies the material allegations of the bill; asserts that a promise on which the…