Legal Opinion
Holt Mfg. Co. v. Best Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 2, 1909No. 1,608Published
Iii Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
The defendant in error was plaintiff in the court below, where it brought this action for the alleged infringement of letters patent granted on the 3d day of September, 1889, to one Daniel Best, for an improvement in combined harvesters and thrashers. The defendant to the action was the Holt Manufacturing Company, which is the plaintiff in error here. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $35,000.
Fong before the issuance of the plaintiff’s patent, mowers and reapers had been superseded on many of the great western grain fields by…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Aron v. Manhattan Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Benbow-Brammer Mfg. Co. v. Richmond Cedar WorksU.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1908