Davidson v. American Blower Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. Bill by Samuel Cleland Davidson and others, suing on behalf of themselves and other stockholders of the American Blower Company similarly situated, against the American Blower Company and others. From a decree for complainants, defendants appeal.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. Bill by Samuel Cleland Davidson and others, suing on behalf of themselves and other stockholders of the American Blower Company similarly situated, against the American Blower Company and others. From a decree for complainants, defendants appeal. This is an appeal from an order of Judge Ray, in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York, enjoining the individual defendants Foss and Gifford, who own or control a majority of the capital stock of the American Blower…
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
The manufacture and selling of the fans and blowers in question is a distinct and separate business of an interstate as well as intrastate character carried on by less than a dozen companies in this country. In the year 1899 the B. F. Sturtevant Company did and it still does the largest part of this business. Next to it was the American Blower Company, a corporation of Michigan. The defendant Foss owned a majority of the stock of each of these companies. In 1902 the complainant Davidson began to sell in this country a new multibladed fan patented by him, called the Sirocco…
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- Memphis & Charleston Railroad v. WoodsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1889
- Dunbar v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1906
- Sirocco Engineering Co. v. B. F. Sturtevant Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1914
- George v. Central Railroad & Banking Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1893
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