Hockholzer v. Eager

BXLLYER, District Judge.

Suit to enjoin the defendants from infringing a patent granted to the complainants for an improved *270machine for framing timbers. The case is before the court upon a motion for an interlocutory injunction, and was heard upon bill, answer and affidavits.

By the application of a few well-settled principles, it will appear that the motion cannot be granted. There has never been any trial at law of the validity of the patent, and while there may be a right to an injunction without such trial, the facts which must be shown to establish that right are clearly pointed out by the…