Electric Sprayit Co. v. Quick Action Ignition Co.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Upon the filing of a bill to restrain the infringement of a patent, defendant filed written interrogatories which were answered under oath by a director of plaintiff. Thereafter plaintiff was preparing to take depositions to show the date of the inventor’s discovery and reduction to practice. Defendant thereupon moved the court for an order to restrain plaintiff from taking *749these depositions. Plaintiff proposed by these depositions to establish a date of discovery different from that set forth in the answer to the interrogatory. Plaintiff thereupon filed affidavits…