I. P. Morris Corp. v. S. Morgan Smith Co.

JOHNSON, District Judge.

The bill of complaint charges the defendant with infringement of letters patent No. 1583415, granted May 4, 1926, to Lewis F. Moody, title to which is now vested in plaintiff, covering a high-speed hydraulic turbine of the propeller type, and prays for an injunction and an accounting. The defendant filed its answer attacking the validity of plaintiffs’ patent and denying infringement.

On June 28, 1918, Lewis P. Moody filed his application for letters patent covering a complete hydraulic turbine of the propeller type, which secures a high specific speed where the water…