Earl v. Southern Pac. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California
This is a bill in equity brought by Edwin T. Earl against the Southern Pacific Company and Robert Graham and others for alleged infringement of letters patent numbered 465,615, issued December 22, 1891, and reissued let lets-patent numbered 11,324, dated April 1.9, 1893, for a ventilator and combined ventilator and refrigerator car.
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This is a bill in equity brought by Edwin T. Earl against the Southern Pacific Company and Robert Graham and others for alleged infringement of letters patent numbered 465,615, issued December 22, 1891, and reissued let lets-patent numbered 11,324, dated April 1.9, 1893, for a ventilator and combined ventilator and refrigerator car. The cause was heard upon a motion for a preliminary injunction, and upon motions to dismiss, as against the Southern Pacific Company and Robert Graham for want of jurisdiction, on the ground that they are not inhabitants of the Northern district of California.
1Opinion of the CourtMorrow, District Judge
(after stating the facts). The patent in this suit was involved in an action at law in this court wherein Edwin T. Earl, the complainant herein, was the plaintiff, and Robert Graham, one of the defendants herein, was the defendant. That action was brought on for trial in March last, and resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and against the defendant. The plaintiff thereupon brought this action, to restrain the defendants from making, using, and selling any cars or ventilators containing the patented invention. The bill charges that the defendants in the Northern…
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