Holman v. Oil Well Supply Co.

The above-entitled suits were consolidated and tried together in the District Court and argued together here. They were brought for the infringement of letters patent No. 1,409,177, issued to Benjamin T. Holman on March 14, 1922, for improvements in spudding shoes. One suit is against the Oil Well Supply Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, and the other is against the Oil Well Supply Company, a New Jersey corporation. The Pennsylvania corporation sold its manufacturing business to the New Jersey corporation, but still retained its corporate existence.

When he brought suit against the…