Thomas Huston Electric Co. v. Sperry Electric Co.

The Western Electric Company files a petition in this case setting forth that petitioner is an Illinois corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing electric lamps and general electric apparatus in the city of Chicago, and has a large business and a large amount of money invested in the same; that, in due course of its business, petitioner makes and sells electric machines with “current regulators,” which, as ,he is informed and believes, complainant claims are an infringement of its patent, No. 238,315, on which this suit is brought, and that petitioner is informed that, if…