Dunham v. Indianapolis & St. L. R.

DRUMMOND, Circuit Judge.

The facts in this case are, that three persons were pat-entees for an improvement in car-brake shoes, and that the plaintiff, being one of them, made a contract with the defendant for a license to use the invention described in the patent; the price to be paid for the license was a thousand dollars. The plaintiff executed and offered to deliver to the defendant the license signed by himself, but not by the two other patentees, and the defendant refused to comply with the terms of the contract and pay the money, because the license was not signed by all of the…