New Jersey Shoe Tree & Last Co. v. Baker Shoe Tree Mfg. Co.

MARTIN, District Judge.

The complainant alleges infringement of two letters patent of the United States, granted to Lionel H. Lead-am on the same day, March 21, 1899, Nos. 621,423 and 621,424, for improvements in shoe trees, and that the complainant is a corporation of which the patentee is the president and the assignee of said patents. On hearing it is urged that the defendant infringed claim 1 of the first patent and claims 1 and 2 of the second patent. The *323prayer is for an injunction and an accounting for profits to the defendant and damages to the complainant. The defendant admits the…